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Everybody agrees that he would make a fine orator in the Chamber; and therefore, though he has nothing, and my daughter has a dot of sixty thousand francs, not to speak of what, as an only child, she will inherit from us and also from her uncle at Mollot and from my aunt Lambert at Troyes, well, I declare to you that if Monsieur Achille Pigoult did us the honor to ask her to wife, I should give her to him; yes, I should provided always she liked him.
"Your opera-glass magnifies," said Achille Pigoult to Madame Mollot, who laughed. "Well, the tiger of the handsome count, drunk as he is, is now riding to Troyes to post a letter, and he'll get there, as they say, in five-quarters of an hour." "I'd like to have that tiger," said Vinet.
The Mulet inn, as we have already said, stands on the square, at the opposite corner to the garden wall of the Marion estate on the other side of the road leading to Brienne. Therefore the solution of the problem could be rapid. Antonin Goulard returned to his place by Cecile to await results. "We talked so much about the stranger yesterday that I dreamed of him all night," said Madame Mollot.
"No, no!" cried Madame Mollot; "you are putting incongruities into my mouth. The stranger was standing up; he held a sponge in his hand above an immense basin, and none of your jokes, Monsieur Olivier! it wasn't his knee, it was his head! He was washing his bald head; he hasn't a spear of hair upon it." "Impudent man!" said Antonin.
"Oh!" said Pigoult, on whose forehead the perspiration, which had not dried, bore testimony to his efforts, "Simon has just told some news that made them all unanimous. Except five persons, Poupart, my grandfather, Mollot, Sinot, and I, all present swore, as at the Jeu de Paume, to employ every means to promote the triumph of Simon Giguet, of whom I have made a mortal enemy.
"For the use of all future sub-prefects," added Olivier Vinet. "How can you do it?" asked Madame Mollot. "Oh!" replied the sub-prefect, "ask Mademoiselle Beauvisage whom she would accept as her husband among all of us here present; she will not answer. Allow me the same discretion.
"Well, young ladies, and what has that to do with his person?" said Madame Mollot, sharply, not pleased at the interruption. "I am talking of the man himself " "Don't interrupt the orator," put in Vinet. "As I was stooping " "Seated?" asked Antonin. "Madame was of course as she naturally would be, making her toilet and looking at the Mulet," said Vinet.
"I am sure we ask nothing better than to be on your side," replied the sheriff's wife. "Mollot has told me," she continued in a low voice, "what took place here to-day it is pitiable! Only one man showed talent, and that was Achille Pigoult.
"That is best," said the huge Monsieur Mollot, clerk of the court; "otherwise what is here taking place would be a mere farce; we should not be free in our action, in which case we might as well continue to do the will of Monsieur Simon Giguet." Simon said a few words to Beauvisage, who rose and delivered himself of a "Messieurs!" in palpitating tones.
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