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With time and a little tacking, we shall get there. But, to succeed, I must wait till the moment when some service is required of me. Then I can say one good turn deserves another " "If I tell Marneffe this tale, my poor Hector, he will play us some mean trick. You must tell him yourself that he has to wait. I will not undertake to do so. Oh! I know what my fate would be.
This hideous specimen of decaying vice, trotting in red heels for Valerie dressed the man as beseemed his income, his cross, and his appointment horrified Crevel, who could not meet the colorless eyes of the Government clerk. Marneffe was an incubus to the Mayor.
This uninviting picture had the effect of making Lisbeth hurry into the courtyard of the house in the Rue Louis-le-Grand, where she found a man smoking a pipe colored in a style that showed him an artist in tobacco. "Why have you come here, Pere Chardin?" she asked. "It is understood that you go, on the first Saturday in every month, to the gate of the Hotel Marneffe, Rue Barbet-de-Jouy.
"She told me to wait till that wretched Marneffe was dead; and I agreed, and forgave her for having admitted the attentions of Hulot. Whether the devil had her in hand I don't know, but from that instant that woman has humored my every whim, complied with all my demands never for one moment has she given me cause to suspect her!
The Baron had made a blunder in giving Madame Marneffe a dress far too magnificent for the wife of a subordinate official; other women were jealous alike of her beauty and of her gown.
What Poland has been politically, almost every Pole is in private life, especially under the stress of disaster. Thus Wenceslas Steinbock, after worshiping his wife for three years and knowing that he was a god to her, was so much nettled at finding himself barely noticed by Madame Marneffe, that he made it a point of honor to attract her attention.
Lisbeth took off her cap, unfastened her black hair, and plunged her head into the basin her new friend held for her. She dipped her forehead into it several times, and checked the incipient inflammation. After this douche she completely recovered her self-command. "Not a word," said she to Madame Marneffe as she wiped her face "not a word of all this.
"Cousin," she went on to Victorin, who just now came in, "a great misfortune is hanging over your head." "What is that?" said Victorin. "Within a few days Madame Marneffe will be your wife's stepmother." "That remains to be seen," replied Victorin.
Madame Marneffe, in short, had so bewitched the old beau, that he really believed she was sinning for the first time for his sake, and that he had inspired such a passion as had led her to this breach of duty. She told him that the wretch Marneffe had neglected her after they had been three days married, and for the most odious reasons.
Valerie pressed her husband's hand with a significant glance, conveying: "Get rid of Crevel." "Good-night, Crevel," said Marneffe. "I hope you will not stay long with Valerie. Yes! I am jealous a little late in the day, but it has me hard and fast. I shall come back to see if you are gone." "We have a little business to discuss, but I shall not stay long," said Crevel. "Speak low.
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