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"We had begun to despair of seeing you, Marquis," answered he politely. "I say so, because these gentlemen are here to meet you. Permit me to introduce to you, Dr. Hortebise, M. Catenac of the Parisian bar, and our secretary," pointing as he spoke, to Paul. As soon as Croisenois had taken his seat, Mascarin went straight to the point, as a bullet to the target.
He turned sharply round on Daddy Tantaine's entrance; and so accustomed were these men to read each other's faces at a glance that Hortebise saw at once what had happened; for Tantaine's expression plainly said, "Is Flavia mad to be here?" while the eyes of Hortebise answered, "She may be, but I could not help it." Paul turned, too, and greeted the old man with an exclamation of delight.
He wanted to find out the one common interest that bound all these plotters together Verminet, Van Klopen, Mascarin, Hortebise, and Martin Rigal. As he submitted all this strange combination of persons to the test, the thought of Gaston de Gandelu came across his mind.
Dr. Hortebise was the first to arrive. It was a terrible thing for him to get up so early; but for Mascarin's sake he consented even to this inconvenience. When he passed through the office, the room was full of clients; but this did not prevent the doctor from noticing the negligence of Beaumarchef's costume. "Aha!" remarked the doctor, "on the drunk again, I am afraid."
A benevolent smile passed over her father's face, as he answered, "That, my pet, is my secret." "Very well, keep it; I do not care what means you use, as long as I see him soon, very soon, to-night perhaps, in an hour, or even in a few minutes. You say Dr. Hortebise will bring him here; he will sit at our table. I can look at him without trouble, I shall hear his voice "
Hortebise has lost his patients, while I have increased the number of my clients; and now you want me to tread the dangerous road again. Not I; go your way, and leave me to go home." Again he took up his hat, but a wave of the hand from Mascarin detained him. "Suppose," said he coldly, "that I told you that your assistance was necessary to me." "I should say so much the worse for you."
Hortebise, who had volunteered to introduce him into good society. Paul felt ill at ease; he had just come from the hands of a fashionable tailor, who, thanks to Mascarin's influence, had in forty-eight hours prepared an evening suit of such superior cut that the young man hardly knew himself in it.
Then, when his prayer is refused, he bursts into a frenzied rage and tears at his door, howling like an infuriated animal; and this state may last to the end of his life, and every minute in it be a space of intolerable torture. Doctor Hortebise is dead; but the poison upon which he relied betrayed him, and he suffered agonies for twenty-four hours.
He interrupted himself, as he saw an expression of hardly-restrained laughter upon the features of Dr. Hortebise. "Do not talk nonsense," answered Mascarin. "You could at first have filed an affidavit regarding your brother's disappearance, and applied to the Court to appoint you trustee, but this is now exactly what you wish to avoid." "Why not, pray? Do you think "
Croisenois endeavored to conceal a sneer; the story was not a very interesting one. "As I said before, each one of us anticipated a brilliant career. Catenac had gained a prize by his 'Treatise on the Transfer of Real Estate, and Hortebise had written a pamphlet regarding which the great Orfila had testified approval. Nor was I without my successes.
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