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What I say now I would be willing to say everywhere, deploring the harm done by such miserable tricks which may have hastened your happiness," he added, rather maliciously, "for I see that Madame de Portenduere is with you." "That is all very well, Goupil," said the abbe, "Mademoiselle forgives you; but you must not forget that you came near being her murderer."
This trick, discovered and punished with prudence and without passion, produced no more sensation out of doors than that of the Inspector Goupil. A year after the nomination of Madame de Lamballe to the post of superintendent of the Queen's household, balls and quadrilles gave rise to the intimacy of her Majesty with the Comtesse Jules de Polignac. This lady really interested Marie Antoinette.
Though Goupil had concluded his bargain with the sheriff the night before, he now impudently refused to fulfil it. "My dear Lecoeur," he said, "I am unexpectedly enabled to buy up Monsieur Dionis's practice; I am therefore in a position to help you to sell to others. Tear up the agreement; it's only the loss of two stamps, here are seventy centimes."
Believe me, you had better hush up this affair; it lies between you and Goupil and me. Leave it as it is; God will decide between us and when I meet your son." "But this sha'n't go one!" cried Zelie. "Do you suppose I'll stand by and let Desire fight you, a sailor whose business it is to handle swords and guns?
Bongrand was already at Goupil's, now the appointed successor of Dionis, but he entered the office with a careless air. "I have a little matter to verify about the Minoret property," he said to Goupil. "What is it?" asked the latter. "The doctor left one or more certificates in the three-per-cent Funds?" "He left one for fifteen thousand francs a year," said Goupil; "I recorded it myself."
Ursula was unable to be present, for she was in bed with a nervous fever, caused partly by the insults of the heirs and partly by her heavy affliction. "Look at that hypocrite weeping," said some of the heirs, pointing to Savinien, who was deeply affected by the doctor's death. "The question is," said Goupil, "has he any good grounds for weeping.
If there is nothing to be done, if he, being intimate with your uncle, knows that all is lost, the proper thing for him to say to you is, 'Don't be worried." As Goupil spoke, a satirical smile overspread his face, and gave such meaning to his words that the other heirs began to feel that Massin had let Bongrand deceive him.
Within a fortnight she'll have left the town you'll see." "Better have you for a friend than an enemy," cried Minoret, frightened at the atrocious grin which gave to Goupil's face the diabolical expression of the Mephistopheles of Joseph Brideau. "I should think so!" returned Goupil. "If she doesn't marry me I'll make her die of grief."
"If I saw you throwing away your whole future for nothing better than a fancy," said Goupil, with a warmth which might even have deceived his master, "I would break your doll as Varney served Amy Robsart in 'Kenilworth. Your wife must be a d'Aiglement or a Mademoiselle du Rouvre, and get you made a deputy. My future depends on yours, and I sha'n't let you commit any follies."
"Why not for me too?" said Goupil maliciously, instantly suspecting a secret motive in Minoret's conduct. "Isn't it through information you got from me that you make twenty-four thousand a year from that land, without a single enclosure, around the Chateau du Rouvre? The fields and the mill the other side of the Loing make sixteen thousand more. Come, old fellow, do you mean to play fair with me?"
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