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The doctor obtained a half-scholarship for his great-nephew at the school of Louis-le-Grand, where Desire was put into the fourth class. Cremiere, Massin, and Minoret-Levrault, extremely common persons, were "rated without appeal" by the doctor within two months of his arrival in Nemours, during which time they courted, less their uncle than his property.
"I have an idea," said Zelie, "that for the last three years he hasn't invested anything he grew fond of hoarding." "Perhaps the money is in the cellar," whispered Massin to Cremiere. "I hope we shall be able to find it," said Minoret-Levrault. "But after what he said at the ball we can't have any doubt," cried Madame Massin. "In any case," began Cremiere, "how shall we manage?
Madame Minoret was as clever as she was grasping; and it was a favorite remark in the whole town, "Where would Minoret-Levrault be without his wife?" "When you know what has happened," replied the post master, "you'll be over the traces yourself." "What is it?" "Ursula has taken the doctor to mass."
"It is a feather in your cap, Mademoiselle," said Madame Cremiere, putting in her word with a humble bow, "a miracle which will not cost you much." "It is God's doing, madame," replied Ursula. "God!" exclaimed Minoret-Levrault; "my father-in-law used to say he served to blanket many horses." "Your father-in-law had the mind of a jockey," said the doctor severely.
Besides, the abbe is one of the most honest men on the face of the globe; he'd give the shirt off his back to a poor man; he is incapable of a base action, and to cheat a family out of their inheritance is " "Theft," said Madame Massin. "Worse!" cried Minoret-Levrault, exasperated by the tongue of his gossiping neighbour.
Then my godfather brought me back to our house, and I saw Minoret-Levrault slipping into the library, where he took from the third volume of Pandects three certificates of twelve thousand francs each; also, from the preceding volume, a number of banknotes.
But when the architect and painter and upholsterer had arranged everything in the most comfortable manner, the doctor did not come. Madame Minoret-Levrault, who kept an eye on the upholsterer and architect as if her own property was concerned, found out, through the indiscretion of a young man sent to arrange the books, that the doctor was taking care of a little orphan named Ursula.
For some time past he had thought of retiring, and so, when his post chaise stopped at the head of the Grand'Rue of Nemours, his heart prompted him to inquire for his family. Minoret-Levrault, the post master, came forward himself to see the doctor, who discovered him to be the son of his eldest brother.
Monsieur and Madame Minoret-Levrault for behind our colossus every one will perceive a woman without whom this signal good-fortune would have been impossible left their son free to choose his own career; he might be a notary in Paris, king's-attorney in some district, collector of customs no matter where, broker, or post master, as he pleased.
A confidential and rather disquieting letter from his son, asking for his consent to a marriage, explains the watch which the post master was now keeping on the bridge; for Madame Minoret-Levrault, busy in preparing a sumptuous breakfast to celebrate the triumphal return of the licentiate, had sent her husband to the mail road, advising him to take a horse and ride out if he saw nothing of the diligence.
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