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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was the echo of his laughter, tossed back from the depths of a tomb, as if that idea of Le Merquier's conscience amused even the dead. "Suppose we walk a little," he said, "it begins to feel cold on this bench." Thereupon, as they walked among the tombs, he explained to him with a certain pedantic conceit that in France bribes played as important a part as in the Orient.
But when people saw the new minister, successor and enemy of Mora, glad of the blow to a protege of his predecessor, smile complacently from the Government bench at Le Merquier's cruel banter, all constraint disappeared at once, and the ministerial smile repeated on three hundred mouths, grew into a scarcely restrained laugh the laugh of crowds under the rod which bursts out at the least approbation of the master.
At that the old woman made a jagged hole through the group and exclaimed, taking her stand in front of Moëssard: "What he didn't tell you I will tell you. I am his mother, and it's my duty to speak." She interrupted herself to seize Le Merquier's sleeve as he was slinking away. "You, above all, you bad man, you are going to listen to me. What have you against my child? Don't you know who he is?
But when it was observed that the new minister of State, Mora's successor and bitter enemy, sitting on the government benches, seemed overjoyed at the rebuke administered to a creature of the defunct statesman, and smiled complacently at Le Merquier's stinging persiflage, all embarrassment instantly disappeared and the ministerial smile, repeated on three hundred mouths, soon increased to scarce-restrained laughter, the laughter of crowds dominated by any rod, by whomsoever held, which the slightest sign of approbation from the master causes to burst forth.
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