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Updated: September 13, 2025
'When you are weary of the Emperor, you will always find a commission waiting for you in the service of the Marshal Millefleurs. It has sometimes struck me that some of you, when you have heard me tell these little adventures of mine, may have gone away with the impression that I was conceited.
We conclude that, at some time or other, the Fiend had been told, or had read, that a certain delightful perfume, eau de millefleurs I think it is called, was derived by chemical agency from sewage, or some equally malodorous matter.
'It must be all happiness here, Ponto, said I, flinging myself down into the snug BERGERE, and inhaling such a delicious draught of country air as all the MILLEFLEURS of Mr. Atkinson's shop cannot impart to any the most expensive pocket-handkerchief. 'Nice place, isn't it? said Ponto. 'Quiet and unpretending. I like everything quiet. You've not brought your valet with you?
'If your hands are perfectly clean, answered our prisoner, and set the whole half-squadron laughing. There was another yell from the wall, followed by a profound hush as the noose was tightened round Marshal Millefleurs' neck. Then came a shriek from a bugle, the Abbey gates flew open, and three men rushed out waving white cloths in their hands.
You are to keep yourself quiet all day, and I will get Madame de Millefleurs to send her carriage round for you at eleven o'clock next day, to take you round by Passy. She has told me many times that it is always at the disposal of any of my patients to whom it would be useful. I will see her some time to-morrow and arrange about it." "Thank you, indeed, Doctor.
I cannot bear it." "I am not going to say any more. Madame de Millefleurs' horses must by this time be half-frozen, and her coachman be out of all patience, and I must be going. I shall come again as soon as I can, and I shall be very angry if I don't find you looking much more like yourself when I next come."
This was tried, because it appeared possible that they might thus be warned of the approach of an enemy. They exhibited the same indifference to my breath whilst I chewed some tobacco, and while a pellet of cotton-wool with a few drops of millefleurs perfume or of acetic acid was kept in my mouth.
Agnes was so far recovered as to be able to be present, though I noticed that she avoided the Millefleurs and sat as far from them as possible. Burke Collins and Mrs. Collins arrived together. I had expected that there would be an icy coolness if not positive enmity between them.
In March of the second year the old Marquess, returning from Turin, was accompanied, to the surprise of all, by the fantastical figure of an elderly gentleman in the richest travelling dress, with one of the new French toupets, a thin wrinkled painted face, and emitting with every movement a prodigious odour of millefleurs.
"O'Connor has called you in. Work for him and well, you know, if you need anything just draw on me for it. Only if you can, keep me out of it. I'll tell everything I can to help you but not to the newspapers." He beckoned us outside. "Those people in there," he nodded his head back in the direction of the Millefleurs, "do you suspect them?
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