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Then, as the woman was scribbling a receipt, he launched into a statement of his own affairs, and told her that he had come into a little property which would enable him to live in comfort during his few remaining years on earth; and evidently fearing that his well-known poverty might cause Madame Loupins to discredit his assertions drew out his pocketbook and exhibited several banknotes.
"You have an account to settle with me?" asked Daddy Tantaine with a puzzled smile. "Yes; was it not through you that I was accused of theft by that old hag, Madame Loupins?" Tantaine shrugged his shoulders.
The fact is, one never knows what lodgers are capable of doing. You should go up to the top floor, and see how they are getting on there." "Pooh, pooh!" replied her husband, M. Loupins; "they will do well enough." "Is that really your opinion?" "I know that I am right. Daddy Tantaine went out as soon as it was light, and a short time afterward Paul Violaine came down.
With these words he crept down the dark staircase, which was only lighted up on Sundays, owing to the high price of gas, and, peeping through the glass door of the porter's lodge, saw Madame Loupins engaged in cooking; and, with the timid knock of a man who has learned his lesson in poverty's grammar, he entered.
"I then determined to obey your injunctions and leave the Hotel de Perou, with which I was more than ever disgusted. I went downstairs to settle with Madame Loupins, when ah! hideous disgrace! As I handed her the two weeks' rent, she asked me with a contemptuous sneer, where I had stolen the money from?" Mascarin secretly chuckled over the success of his plans thus announced by Paul.
"What did you say?" asked he. "Nothing, sir; I was too horror-stricken; the man Loupins came up, and both he and his wife scowled at me threateningly. After a short pause, they asserted that they were perfectly sure that Rose and I had robbed M. Tantaine." "But did you not deny this monstrous charge?" "I was utterly bewildered, for I saw that every circumstance was against me.
We will pay up Loupins, and get out of his horrible den." Paul had not been the only watcher; for at the sound of the carriage wheels the ancient portress took up her position in the doorway, with her eyes fixed on the face of the young lady. When the two women had ascended the stairs, a sudden inspiration seized her, and she went out and spoke to the cabman.
The young woman whom M. Loupins alluded to by the name of Rose was seated in one of these dreary dens on this bitter winter's day. Rose was an exquisitely beautiful girl about eighteen years of age. She was very fair; her long lashes partially concealed a pair of steely blue eyes, and to a certain extent relieved their hard expression.
He died of cold and hunger in a garret in the Hotel de Perou, as M. de Loupins will testify when necessary." The tone in which Tantaine spoke showed his intense earnestness, and with emphatic gestures he drove each successive idea into Paul's brain. "You will rid yourself of your former recollections as you do of an old coat, which you throw aside, and forget the very existence of.
The chambers in every floor of the house are divided into small slips by partitions, covered with canvas and paper, and pleasantly termed rooms by M. Loupins.
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