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For I can not deny it. I am looking out for an opportunity to repair my clumsy mistake and show myself in a less unfavorable light than I did at that ill-starred visit. And she is the reason why I haunt his path! Ever since M. Mouillard threatened me with Mademoiselle Berthe Lorinet, the graceful outlines of Mademoiselle Jeanne have haunted me with a persistence to which I have no objection.
Two were there: "Monsieur Lorinet, retired solicitor, town councillor, of Bourbonnoux-les-Bourges, deputy-magistrate"; "Madame Lorinet, nee Poupard." I was surprised not to find a third card: "Berthe Lorinet, of no occupation, anxious to change her name." Berthe will be difficult to get rid of. I presume she didn't dare to leave a card on a young man, it wouldn't have been proper.
Madame Lorinet couldn't tear herself away from it. 'Nothing but men, she said, 'have you noticed that, Jules? 'Well, Madame, I said, 'that's just how it is here; except for me, and I don't count, only gentlemen come here. I've kept house for bachelors where well, there are not many "That will do, Madame Menin; that will do. I know you always think too highly of me. Hasn't Lampron been here?"
Every one notices how he has changed; Monsieur Lorinet and his lady never enter the doors; Monsieur Hublette and Monsieur Horlet come and play dummy, looking all the time as if they had come for a funeral, thinking it will please the master. Even the clients say that the master treats them like dogs, and that he ought to sell his practice." "Then it isn't sold?"
Two were there: "Monsieur Lorinet, retired solicitor, town councillor, of Bourbonnoux-les-Bourges, deputy-magistrate"; "Madame Lorinet, nee Poupard." I was surprised not to find a third card: "Berthe Lorinet, of no occupation, anxious to change her name." Berthe will be difficult to get rid of. I presume she didn't dare to leave a card on a young man, it wouldn't have been proper.
"He is a young man who takes life seriously." "Very seriously, uncle. Isn't he about to be married?" "Why, yes; to a rich wife." "To whom?" "My dear boy, he is picking up all your leavings; he is going to marry Mademoiselle Lorinet." "He was always enterprising! But, uncle, it wasn't with him you were engaged yesterday evening?" "Why not, pray?"
Then there will no longer be a gulf betwixt her and me, I shall be able to meet her without confusion, to invoke her image to put to flight that of Mademoiselle Lorinet without the vision of those disdainful lips to dash me. She will be for me at once the type of Parisian grace and of filial affection.
Yes, my dear uncle, you were employed, according to the formula, "in virtue of these and subsequent engagements," and among the "subsequent engagements" you are kind enough to reckon one between Mademoiselle Berthe Lorinet, spinster, of no occupation, and M. Fabien Mouillard, lawyer. "Fabien Mouillard, lawyer" that I may perhaps endure, but "Fabien Mouillard, son-in-law of Lorinet," never!
The room, of course, was quite empty of furniture and only lighted by one candle, but there was the rug and the child asleep on it. Cochefer swears he saw him, and now when I went up " "Well?" "The commissaries were all there Cochefer and Lasniere, Lorinet and Legrand. We went into the inner room, and I had a candle in my hand.
I recognized Monsieur, Madame, and Mademoiselle Lorinet. They were all smiling with the same look of contemptuous mockery. I bowed. The man alone returned my salute, raising his hat. By some strange freak of fate, Berthe was again wearing a blue dress.
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