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I work hard I am out of your sight but I applaud all your successes." While Jéliotte was speaking of Vaudrey's successes, he sat on the edge of a chair, staring at his hat, and wagging his jaw as if he were cracking a nut between his frail teeth. "I have been delighted at your getting into the cabinet. Delighted for your sake "
"You still address me in the old familiar way," Jéliotte answered, showing his slightly broken and yellow teeth. "What an idea! Have I forfeited your good opinion, that I should abandon our familiar form of address?" "Honors, then, have not changed you; well! so much the better," said Jéliotte. "You ask me how I am? Oh! always the same!
You will take me just as I am or not at all. That will depend altogether upon the change of humor that the acquisition of honors may produce in you " "Jéliotte! we shall see, Jéliotte!" "Well! You can take me or leave me. And as I do not wish to be confounded with the cringing valets who crowd your antechambers " "You crowd nothing, you will not dance attendance.
Again and again I tell you, we do not live under Louis XIV." Madame de Mirepoix had been Ambassadress to London, and had often heard the English make this remark. Some alterations had been made in Madame de Pompadour's rooms, and I had no longer, as heretofore, the niche in which I had been permitted to sit, to hear Caffarelli, and, in later times, Mademoiselle Fel and Jeliotte.
Jéliotte was a former comrade in the law courts, an advocate in the Court of Appeal, and he entered, bowing ceremoniously to Sulpice, who with a pleased face and outstretched hands, went to welcome the old companion of his youth. Jéliotte bowed with a certain affectation of respect, and smiled nervously. "How happy I am to see you," Vaudrey said.
I am not the friend for the hour of success, but for that of misfortune." "And you will return?" "When you are overthrown! "Thank you!" "That is like me! I love my friends." "When they are down!" said Sulpice. "That is so!" exclaimed Jéliotte. "And is that all you had to say to me?" the minister asked. "Is not that enough?" "Yes! yes! Au revoir, Jéliotte." "Au revoir! Till you know when." "Yes.
She doesn't leave the house of her uncle, the doctor, nor does she receive any one." "Is she sick, then?" "Yes, slightly." "And you are separated, then?" "No," replied Sulpice. Jéliotte smiled. "Ah! joker, I understand! Your wife was too strict! Bless me, a provincial! Bah! that will come right! And if it doesn't, why, you will be free, that's all!
Vaudrey felt strongly inclined to shake off this pretentious ninny who was clinging to his arm. "That is like me!" continued Jéliotte. "I like my friends better when they are down! What would you have? It is my generous nature. By the way, do you know that the reason I have not seen you before is because I have not been in Paris! I have returned from Isère!"
Have I asked you to dance attendance?" "No, not yet I called simply to see if I should be received. Yes, it is merely in the nature of an experiment it is made. It is to your honor, I admit, but I will not repeat it I shall disappear. It is more simple. Yes, I have told you and I was determined to tell you that you will never see me, so long as you are a minister." "Ah! Jéliotte! Jéliotte!"
Ah, Ramel! he was bent on remaining in the background, on being nothing and loving his friends only when they were in defeat, as Jéliotte had said. Well, Vaudrey would take him as his adviser. This devil of a Ramel, this savage fellow should govern the state in spite of himself. The minister did not know Ramel's present lodging which he had occupied only a short time.
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