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Updated: September 14, 2025
Hulot, fearing some catastrophe, went out to speak with Reine, who would not come into the anteroom. The faithful waiting-maid gave him the following note: "DEAR OLD MAN, Do not go to the Rue du Dauphin. Our incubus is ill, and I must nurse him; but be there this evening at nine. Crevel is at Corbeil with Monsieur Lebas; so I am sure he will bring no princess to his little palace.
When this decisive blow had been struck, the old man, for whom, no doubt, these reminiscences were too much, took up three or four bills of exchange, and looked at them without seeing them. Suddenly Joseph Lebas stood before him. "Sit down there," said Guillaume, pointing to the stool. As the old master draper had never yet bid his assistant be seated in his presence, Joseph Lebas was startled.
For the last two years I have told you almost all my concerns. I have sent you to travel in our goods. In short, I have nothing on my conscience as regards you. But you you have a soft place, and you have never breathed a word of it." Joseph Lebas blushed. "Ah, ha!" cried Guillaume, "so you thought you could deceive an old fox like me? When you knew that I had scented the Lecocq bankruptcy?"
The women did not understand them, though they had a strong personal opinion about their learned author. "The only ghost I ever came across, or, rather, came within measurable distance of, never appeared at all so far as one knew." "Miss Lebas has a story," said the squire, "Won't she tell us her story?" The ladies murmured, "Do, please."
The case was still proceeding when the tidings arrived: "The Convention, after a six-hours' session, has decreed Maximilien Robespierre accused, with him Couthon and Saint-Just; add Augustin Robespierre, and Lebas, who have demanded to share the lot of the accused. The five outlaws stand at the bar of the house."
To Lady Violet Lebas. Dear Lady Violet, Who can admire too much your undefeated resolution to admire only the right things? I wish I had this respect for authority! But let me confess that I have always admired the things which nature made me prefer, and that I have no power of accommodating my taste to the verdict of the critical.
For it was you, I am told, who hindered her marrying Monsieur Lebas' son." "You are a good soul and to be trusted," said Crevel. "Well, then, do you suppose that I will ever forgive Monsieur Hulot for the crime of having robbed me of Josepha especially when he turned a decent girl, whom I should have married in my old age, into a good-for-nothing slut, a mountebank, an opera singer! No, no.
Coleridge had defined poetry as "the best words, in the best order" that is, "diction and metre." He, therefore, proposed to take from Virgil his poetry, and then to ask what was left of the Poet! To the Lady Violet Lebas. Dear Lady Violet, I do not wonder that you are puzzled by the language of the first French novel.
Austere Madame Guillaume was the first to see in her daughter's affection a reason for abdicating her principles and for consenting to receive Monsieur de Sommervieux, whom she promised herself she would put under severe inquisition. The old draper went to look for Joseph Lebas, and inform him of the state of affairs.
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