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After sealing it with wax, with a care and precision that denoted a nature extremely fastidious and particular, or else a man accustomed to discharge diplomatic functions, du Portail rang for Bruneau, his valet, and said, as he gave him the letter: "For the justice-of-peace of the arrondissement."
In these quarters the justice-of-peace is the supreme authority; all legal contests stop short at his office, especially since the law was passed giving to those judges sovereign power in all cases of litigation involving not over one hundred and forty francs. A way was made for the judge's clerk, who was not less feared than the judge himself.
"Ha ha! little woman; so we feel the necessity of consulting a barrister? You are right; at the family council very serious matters were brought up against you." "Thank God, I fear no one. I can walk with my head up," said the person thus addressed. "So much the better for you," replied the clerk of the justice-of-peace; "but you will probably be summoned before the judge who examines the affair.
And he related in all its details the affair of Madame Lambert, adding, however, that on questioning the woman closely at the office of the justice-of-peace, after the meeting with la Peyrade, he had been unable to extract from her any confession, although by her whole bearing she had amply confirmed the suspicions of Dutocq and himself.
Monsieur Dutocq is in the office of the justice-of-peace; in other words, he couldn't be easily defeated in such a matter." "The debt to Monsieur Dutocq you shall buy off yourself," replied du Portail. "Make arrangements with him to that effect. Should Theodose prove reluctant to carry out my plans, those notes may become a useful weapon in our hands.
That poor Monsieur Picot!" she went on, weeping, "they'll kill him if they continue to worry him in this way." "I sha'n't conceal from you," said Cerizet, "that the justice-of-peace is very ill-disposed to your cause. You must have seen that the other day, when he refused to receive you.
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