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"I wish those seals were already on, so that we could go home," said Minoret. "We shall have to put a watcher over them," said Massin. "La Bougival is capable of anything in the interests of that minx. We'll put Goupil there." "Goupil!" said the post master; "put a rat in the meal!" "Well, let's consider," returned Massin.
Desire Minoret, when questioned by his chief, dared not tell his thought. He recognized Goupil. Goupil, he fully believed, was the only man capable of carrying a persecution to the very verge of the penal code without infringing a hair's-breadth upon it. Impunity, secrecy, and success increased Goupil's audacity.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life, little boy," he added, turning to me. "You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist's nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs." When, on our reaching the house, my aunt would send to ask us whether Mme. Goupil had indeed arrived late for mass, not one of us could inform her.
He had already got possession of two sheets, which contained the most atrocious calumnies, conveyed with a degree of art which might make them very dangerous to the Queen's reputation. Goupil said that he could obtain the rest, but that he should want a considerable sum for that purpose.
"No more than a dagger is a murderer." "I beg your pardon," said Savinien. "Are you revenged enough?" said Goupil, with ferocious irony; "will you stop here?" "Reciprocal pardon and forgetfulness," replied Savinien. "Give me your hand," said the clerk, holding out his own. "It is yours," said Savinien, swallowing the shame for Ursula's sake. "Now speak; who made you do this thing?"
"Then I shall seize the occasion to have my portrait drawn," said Madame Cremiere. In the provinces they always say a picture is drawn, not painted. "The old German is not dismissed, is he?" said Madame Massin. "He was there yesterday," replied Cabirolle. "Now," said Goupil, "you may as well give up counting on your inheritance. Ursula is seventeen years old, and she is prettier than ever.
"Very well, then," said Goupil, falling from the pinnacle of his hopes; "here's a stamped cheque; write me an order for twenty thousand francs; I want the money in hand at once." Minoret had eighteen thousand francs by him at that moment of which his wife knew nothing. He thought the best way to get rid of Goupil was to sign the draft.
"Now we shall have some fun," said Goupil, shaking him by the hand. "Ha! my old wag, so here you are!" replied Desire. "You take your law license for all license," said Goupil, affronted by being treated so cavalierly in presence of others. "You know my luggage," cried Desire to the red-faced old conductor of the diligence; "have it taken to the house."
Jogues, however, lost no opportunity to baptize dying infants, while Goupil taught children to make the sign of the cross. On one occasion, he made the sign on the forehead of a child, grandson of an Indian in whose lodge they lived. The superstition of the old savage was aroused. Some Dutchmen had told him that the sign of the cross came from the Devil, and would cause mischief.
"It is a very ancient marquisate," said Goupil, maliciously; "which will soon be worth in your hands fifty thousand francs a year; that means a capital of more than two millions as money is now."
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