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"Why, it is charming!" said Dinah to her mother. All the good folks of Sancerre sat with eyes as large as five-franc pieces. "Go on, I beg," said the hostess. Lousteau went on: "Your key " "Have you lost it?" "It is in the arbor." "Let us hasten." "Can the Cardinal have taken it?" "No, here it is." "What danger we have escaped!" Olympia looked at the key, and fancied she recognized it as her own.
"What is the matter with you?" asked Etienne Lousteau. "I see poetry fallen into the mire." "Ah! you have still some illusions left, my dear fellow." "Is there nothing for it but to cringe and submit to thickheads like Matifat and Camusot, as actresses bow down to journalists, and we ourselves to the booksellers?"
This was all his plan, and Etienne Lousteau, who had confided so much to him, knew his secret, knew how to deal a deathblow to the poet of Angouleme. That very night, as Lucien and Merlin went to the Vaudeville, Etienne had laid a terrible trap, into which an inexperienced boy could not but fall.
The dinner, at which Lousteau, one of the court judges, and the Mayor of Issoudun were present, was splendid. It was one of those provincial dinners lasting five hours. The most exquisite wines enlivened the conversation. By nine o'clock, at dessert, the painter, seated opposite to his uncle, and between Flore and Max, had fraternized with the soldier, and thought him the best fellow on earth.
"Let us see," said Lousteau, taking the sheet the doctor held out to him, and he read aloud as follows: cavern. Rinaldo, indignant at his companions' cowardice, for they had no courage but in the open field, and dared not venture into Rome, looked at them with scorn. "Then I go alone?" said he. He seemed to reflect, and then he went on: "You are poor wretches.
"I only wished you to understand the extent of the sacrifice," replied Nathan, giving up the letter, as he reflected on the judge's influence and accepted this implied bargain. When the journalist's stupid jest had been counteracted, Monsieur de Clagny went to give him a rating in the presence of Madame Piedefer; but he found Lousteau fuming with irritation.
"Is my agreement with Lousteau made out in duplicate and ready to sign?" asked Finot, speaking aside. "Yes." "Then ante-date this gentleman's agreement by one day, so that Lousteau will be bound by the previous contract." Finot took his new contributor's arm with a friendliness that charmed Lucien, and drew him out on the landing to say: "Your position is made for you.
"They say," replied Madame de Clagny behind her fan, "that Dinah sent for him, not so much with a view to the elections as to ascertain why she has no children." In the first excitement of this success, Lousteau introduced the great doctor as the only possible candidate at the ensuing elections.
He marveled at the power of the press; Intellect and the Press, these then were the real powers in society. Another thought shaped itself in his mind Was Etienne Lousteau sorry that he had opened the gate of the temple to a newcomer? If a poet should come to him as he had flung himself into Etienne's arms, he dared not think of the reception that he would give him.
Dauriat burst out laughing. "What is this after all?" he asked, holding up the manuscript. "A volume of sonnets that will put Petrarch to the blush," said Lousteau. "What do you mean?" "Just what I say," answered Lousteau, seeing the knowing smile that went round the group. Lucien could not take offence but he chafed inwardly.
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