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Besides, it was necessary to get rid of the young substitute, just as the Minards had previously ruined the hopes of Monsieur Godeschal. To complete this portrait of the poor man's lawyer we must here relate the circumstances of his first arrival at the Thuilliers'. Theodose came to lodge in Mademoiselle Thuillier's house toward the close of the year 1837.
Three or four persons came running towards them with ropes and planks, while behind came another and larger group with their mother amongst them. Stella could only hear their voices, and do as they bade her. "How be 'ee going to get the little maid, now?" said a voice she recognised as Farmer Minards'; "'er's the awkwardest of the two to get 'old on, by a long way.
"Mark me," whispered Old Zeb Minards, crowder and leader of the musicians, sitting back at the end of the Psalms, and eyeing his fiddle dubiously; "If Sternhold be sober this morning, Hopkins be drunk as a fly, or 'tis t'other way round." "'Twas middlin' wambly," assented Calvin Oke, the second fiddle a screw-faced man tightly wound about the throat with a yellow kerchief.
"Oh, you do, do you? Wait a while, my friend. In the second place," he went on, returning to Prudy, "ask young Zebedee Minards, if he wants my life back, to come and fetch it. And now attend all. Do you see these?" He threw back his cloak, and, diving a hand into his coat-pocket, produced a couple of pistols.
As for the Minards, I must throw a little dust in their eyes; I have a particular need of them." "Four Minards, three Phellions, four Collevilles, and ourselves; that makes thirteen " "La Peyrade, fourteen; and it is worth while to invite Dutocq; he may be useful to us. I'll go up and see him." "What are you scheming?" cried his sister. "Fifteen to dinner!
The latter was the former vicar of Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas, whose great refinement of manner and gift of preaching had induced the archbishop to remove him from the humble parish where his career had begun to the aristocratic church of the Madeleine. When the time came to sit down to table three guests were missing, two Minards, father and son, and the notary Dupuis.
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