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"We need ask no more," said the impetuous sailor; "we know him for one of our saints. If the Scotchman had not done the deed he would kill us that infamous Minard." "Yes," said Lecamus, "my life belongs to the church; I shall give it with joy for the triumph of the Reformation, on which I have seriously reflected. I know that what we do is for the happiness of the peoples.
"My God!" said Felix, terrified, "he is ill; ring the bell, I entreat you, Monsieur Minard." And he ran to the old man, loosened his cravat and unfastened the collar of his shirt, striking him in the palms of his hands.
Kept quiet in false security I had done nothing for the propagation of my book, which had been left to take care of itself; and thus it was that I, victim of black and wicked jealousy, was shamefully despoiled of the value of my labors." "But," said Minard, making himself the mouthpiece of the thoughts of the company, "may we not see in that act a manner as ingenious as it was delicate to "
"I have made his anagram," replied Colleville, "and his name, Charles-Marie-Theodose de la Peyrade, prophecies: 'Eh! monsieur payera, de la dot, des oies et le char. Therefore, my dear Mamma Minard, be sure you don't give him your daughter." "They say that young man is better-looking than my son," said Madame Phellion to Madame Colleville. "What do you think about it?"
"What a deputy Minard would make!" cried Zelie, naively. "He practises speechifying at home. You'll help us to get him elected, won't you, Thuillier?" "We won't talk politics now," replied Thuillier. "Come at five." "Will that little Vinet be there?" asked Minard; "he comes, no doubt, for Celeste." "Then he may go into mourning," replied Thuillier. "Brigitte won't hear of him."
The activity of Theodose and Dutocq, Cerizet, Barbet, Metivier, Minard, Phellion, Colleville, and others of the Thuillier circle was extreme. Great and small, they all put their hands to the work. Cadenet procured thirty votes in his section.
The absence of Minard senior remained unexplained, but Madame Minard insisted that they should sit down to table without him; which was done, Brigitte ordering that the soup be kept hot for him, because in the bourgeois code of manners and customs a dinner without soup is no dinner at all.
"What?" cried Thuillier, thinking he had read wrong, or had misunderstood what he read. "Go on! go on!" said the mayor of the eleventh. Then, as Thuillier, with a bewildered air, seemed not disposed to continue his reading, Minard took the paper from his hands and read the rest of the article himself, beginning where the other had left off:
"Ah! no doubt," said Phellion, naively; "some very important business." "Most important," replied Minard; "a little bankruptcy of five hundred thousand francs which the gentleman leaves behind him." "But who is this public officer," demanded Phellion, "so recreant, in this scandalous manner, to the sacred duties of his calling?"
"But what article? what action?" said the proprietor of the "Echo," getting quite beside himself. "The article of this morning," said Minard. "The article of this morning?" "Ah ca! did you write it when you were asleep; or, like Monsieur Jourdain doing prose, do you do heroism without knowing it?" "I! I haven't written any article!" cried Thuillier.
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