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Hortebise has lost his patients, while I have increased the number of my clients; and now you want me to tread the dangerous road again. Not I; go your way, and leave me to go home." Again he took up his hat, but a wave of the hand from Mascarin detained him. "Suppose," said he coldly, "that I told you that your assistance was necessary to me." "I should say so much the worse for you."
Paul's reply did not seem to surprise Mascarin, but it is doubtful whether he was pleased by it, for his countenance showed traces of a struggle between extreme satisfaction and intense annoyance, while the doctor was surprised at the cool audacity of the young man whose mind he had undertaken to form.
"He has a reputation for being a man of ungovernable temper, and, at the first word from you that he objects to, would throw you out of the window as soon as look at you." Mascarin shrugged his shoulders. "I can bring him to reason," answered he. The two confederates walked a little past the Hotel de Mussidan, and the doctor explained the interior arrangements of the house.
"They find not only one, but three distinct statements relating to the affair in question." The Count started again to his feet with so menacing a look, that the worthy Mascarin pushed back his chair in anticipation of an immediate assault. "Proofs!" gasped the Count. "Give me proofs."
Then Mascarin will disappear, our faithful Beaumarchef will be in the United States, and we can afford to laugh at the police." "It seems like a success," said the doctor, "but push on for mercy's sake; all these delays and fluctuations will make me seriously ill." The two worthy associates held this conversation in a doorway, anxious to be sure that Flavia had kept her promise.
And we only surmise that he has been arrested, and thrown the blame on you. Before giving up the game, would it not be best to be satisfied on these points?" Paul felt a little reassured. "I say nothing," continued Mascarin, "of the influence I exercise over Tantaine, and which may enable me to compel him to confess the truth."
The young lady, Mademoiselle Rigal, saw him, and fell in love with him." A clever man like Catenac should have foreseen what was coming, but he had not, and at this conclusion he uttered a loud exclamation of surprise. "Yes, just so," said Mascarin, with an air of bland triumph.
"If you are afraid of your own husband, go to some one else's," said he roughly; and tearing himself from her, he followed Mascarin and Paul. "Did you hear that?" asked he, as soon as he had closed the door of his room with an angry slam. "These things occasionally occur, and are not particularly pleasant." Paul looked on in disgust.
At last the Count gave ear to prudence. He stopped in front of the agent, and, taking no pains to hide his contempt, said, "Come, let us make an end of this. How much do you want for these papers?" "Oh, my lord!" exclaimed Mascarin; "surely you do not think that I could be guilty ?" M. de Mussidan shrugged his shoulders. "Pray, do not take me for a fool," said he, "but name your sum."
It was the long existence of M. Mascarin in a business which is usually very short-lived that had obtained for him a great amount of confidence, not only in the quarter in which he resided, but throughout the whole of Paris. Employers say that he sends them the best of servants, and the domestics in their turn assert that he only despatches them to good places.
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