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Updated: June 20, 2025
'Did you ask the people downstairs to get anything ready for you? she inquired. 'No, said David, hesitating; 'we thought we could manage for ourselves. 'Well perhaps after the first, she said, still laughing. 'But I may as well warn you the Merichat will be very uncivil to you if you don't manage to pay her for something. Hadn't you better explore?
She also was laden; and about halfway down the street, Madame Merichat, watching from her window, had seen them hail a cab, get into it, and drive away, the cab turning to the right when they reached the Boulevard. Madame Cervin's wrath was loud, and stimulated moreover by personal alarm.
He recollected patrols up and down the Rue Chantal; talks with Madame Merichat; the gleam in her eyes as he slipped his profitless bribes into her hand; visits to Taranne's atelier, where the concierge at last grew suspicious and reported the matter within; and finally an interview with the artist himself, from which the English youth emerged no nearer to his end than before, and crushed under the humiliation of the great man's advice.
He had hardly time to put them in water and to notice that Madame Merichat had made Dubois' squalid abode look much more habitable than before, when there was a knock at the door and his two guides stood outside. They carried him off at once.
And he must put her on the watch, too Elise could not escape him long. But he must have more money. He looked out for a stationer's shop, went in and wrote a letter to John, which he posted at the next post-office. It was an incoherent scrawl, telling the lad to change the cheque he enclosed in Bank of England notes and send them to the Rue Chantal, care of Madame Merichat.
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