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And the haughty air of Monpavon, whom the head-dress of the old woman receiving them on the terrace had shocked, gave way to a condescending smile. Here was something to work on, certainly, and, guided by persons of taste, their friend Jansoulet could really give his Moorish Highness an exceedingly suitable reception. All the evening they talked of nothing else.
She knows more than I do myself about banking and Paris and business. It is she who manages everything at home." "You are very fortunate," sighed Jansoulet. His air of gloom told a long story of qualities missing in Mlle. Afchin. Then, after a silence, the baron resumed: "She has a great grudge against you, Marie, you know.
At that moment Bernard Jansoulet was crossing the doorway of the legislative chamber, his mother on his arm; but poignant as was the drama enacted there, this one surpassed it more sudden, unforeseen, and without any stage effects. A drama between four walls, improvised in Paris day by day.
They have arrested Bois l'Hery; they should have arrested him. Ah! if we had had another expert, I am sure it would have been done. Besides, as I said to Francis, you had only to look at this upstart of a Jansoulet to see what he was worth. What a head like a bandit! "And so common," said the ex-valet. "No principles." "An absolute want of form.
M. Jansoulet received it in the morning with his chocolate; and at the same hour his friends and his enemies for a man like the Nabob cannot be indifferent to anybody read it and discussed it, and adopted a line of conduct toward him calculated not to compromise themselves.
The report adopted, they sent for M. Sarigue to make some supplementary explanations. He appeared, pale-faced, abashed, stammering like a criminal before conviction, and you would have laughed to see the patronizing, authoritative air with which Jansoulet encouraged and reassured him: "Be calm, my dear colleague." But the members of the eighth committee did not laugh.
But in this case, where have gone, where are going now, the enormous sums M. Jansoulet has spent during the last five months not to count what came from the outside, attracted by the magic of his name? I thought, as you did, that all these soundings, borings, purchasings of land that the books set forth in fine round-hand were exaggerated beyond measure. But who could suspect such effrontery?
Jansoulet drew a long breath of relief. "Ah! Monsieur le Duc, how much good you do me by talking to me thus. I was beginning to lose all my confidence. My enemies are so powerful! And on top of all the rest there's another piece of ill-luck. Le Merquier, of all people, is assigned to make the report concerning my election." "Le Merquier? the devil!"
The two former partners had reached that stage; but Jansoulet held the banker's arm very tight, fearing that he might escape him, might resist the kindly impulses that he had aroused in him. "You are in no hurry, are you? We might walk a moment or two if you choose. It has stopped raining, it will do us good we shall be twenty years younger."
About a week after his adventure with Moessard, that new complication in the terrible muddle of his affairs, Jansoulet, on leaving the Chamber, one Thursday, ordered his coachman to drive him to Mora's house.
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