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His prefect evidently wants to ruin him, and we have come to see you in order to prevent the Council of State from ratifying a great injustice." "Who brings up the case?" "Massol." "Good." "And our friends Giraud and Claude Vignon are on the committee," said Bixiou.
"Well, the tragic is not lacking in your play," said Gazonal. "It is six o'clock. Before we take you to see Odry in 'Les Saltimbauques' to-night," said Leon to Gazonal, "we must go and pay a visit to Madame Cadine, an actress whom your committee-man Massol cultivates, and to whom you must therefore pay the most assiduous court."
His partners, Massol the lawyer, and du Tillet the banker, had intended from the first to harness his ardor to the chariot of their own importance and get rid of him as soon as he was out of condition to feed the paper, or else to deprive him of his power, arbitrarily, whenever it suited their purpose to take it.
She consulted the young lawyer as to whether she would do well to enter on a lawsuit with her son-in-law, the Comte de Gross-Narp, who made her daughter very miserable, and whether the law allowed her to dispose of her fortune. In spite of all his efforts, Massol could not be sure whether the summons were addressed to the mistress or the maid.
"How much I should like to know Latin that I might study the words of that inscription!" said she. "Do you think that Monsieur Camusot could give me a permit?" "That is not in his power; but he could take you there." "But his business " objected she. "Oh!" said Massol, "prisoners under suspicion can wait." "To be sure," said she artlessly, "they are under suspicion.
While this conversation, apparently so frivolous, was going on at Carabine's right, the discussion of love was continued on her left between the Duc d'Herouville, Lousteau, Josepha, Jenny Cadine, and Massol. They were wondering whether such rare phenomena were the result of passion, obstinacy, or affection. Josepha, bored to death by it all, tried to change the subject.
They are ably seconded by Levasseur, Madame Stolz who is well known in London, and the fine deep voice of Baroilhet, Boucher, Massol, and Mademoiselle Nau, possess a moderate share of talent, there are also others whose abilities are of minor force but sufficient to support the subordinate rôles.
As he left the room, Monsieur de Granville was stopped by young Chargeboeuf, to whom he spoke to give him instructions as to what he was to say to Massol, one of the editors of the Gazette des Tribunaux. While beauties, ministers, and magistrates were conspiring to save Lucien, this was what he was doing at the Conciergerie.
"Paris has caught me!" thought Gazonal, now perceiving Jenny Cadine, and going up to her. "And I," said the actress, "what am I to have?" "All I possess," replied Gazonal, thinking that to offer all was to give nothing. Massol, Claude Vignon, du Tillet, Maxime de Trailles, Nucingen, du Bruel, Malaga, Monsieur and Madame Gaillard, Vauvinet, and a crowd of other personages now entered.
The Governor of the Conciergerie meanwhile was examining the outer gate, and saying to his clerk: "No expense was spared; the bars are of wrought iron, they were properly tested, and cost a large sum; and yet there was a flaw in that bar." Monsieur de Granville on returning to his room had other instructions to give to his private secretary. Massol, happily had not yet arrived.
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