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She pointed to Monpavon standing expectantly by the Nabob, who, from afar, bestowed upon His Excellency the submissive, imploring gaze of a great faithful dog. Thereupon the Minister of State remembered what had brought him there. He bowed to Felicia and returned to Monpavon, who was able at last to present "his honorable friend, Monsieur Bernard Jansoulet."
The Cour des Comptes has stuck its nose into my affairs again' " "What the devil's that you're reading?" exclaimed Monpavon abruptly, snatching the letter from his hands. And in an instant, thanks to Mora's negligence in allowing such private letters to lie around, the terrible plight in which he would be left by his protector's death came to his mind. In his grief he had not as yet thought of it.
He was now a haughty man of no particular age, fine majestic nose, a lordly bearing, displaying a large shirt-front of immaculate linen crackling beneath the continual effort of the chest to throw itself forward, and bulging itself out each time with a noise like that made by a white turkey when it struts in anger, or by a peacock when he spreads his tail. His name of Monpavon suited him well.
The most salient feature in that heroi-comic countenance was a great arched nose shining with cold cream, and a keen, piercing eye, too youthful, too clear for the heavy, wrinkled lid that covered it. All of Jenkins' patients had that same eye. Verily Monpavon must have been deeply moved to show himself thus shorn of all prestige.
"It is Carigny?" inquired the Prince, hesitating. The stranger smiled. "Yes," he answered. "Monpavon, is it not?" Even his French had changed, become the French of a foreigner. "You have been a long time coming for your revenge," said the Prince. "But you are welcome always, Carigny." He held out his hand, and again the young man touched the elder.
You see, you must have been to a servants' party before you can believe all that one learns there, and what a curious thing Parisian society is when you look at it thus from below, from the basement. For instance, happening to be between M. Francis and M. Louis, I caught this scrap of confidential conversation concerning Sire de Monpavon.
Toast your feet a moment while François finishes my hair." Jenkins entered the bedroom, which was as prosaic a place as all furnished apartments are, and approached the fire, where curling-tongs of all dimensions were heating, while from the adjoining laboratory, separated from the bedroom by an Algerian curtain, the Marquis de Monpavon submitted to the manipulations of his valet.
The old mother is excellently done, however, and Monpavon, especially in his suicide, is nothing short of a triumph of art. It is the more or less romantic or sentimental personages that give the critic most qualms. Daudet seems to have introduced them De Gery, the Joyeuse family, and the rest as a concession to popular taste, and on this score was probably justified.
Jenkins, at your house the other evening, I amused myself counting all those adventurers of high " The little old lady, pink-cheeked and powdered, said to her softly from her seat: "Felicia take care " But she went on without listening to her: "Who is this Monpavon, Doctor? And Bois-l'Héry? And Mora himself? And " She was on the point of saying, "And the Nabob?" but checked herself.
Jenkins's visit to Monpavon at his toilet, the dejeuner at the Nabob's, the inspection of the OEuvre de Bethleem which would have delighted Dickens the collapse of the fetes of the Bey, the Nabob's thrashing Moessard, the death of Mora, Felicia's attempt to escape the funeral of the duke, the interview between the Nabob and Hemerlingue, the baiting in the Chamber, the suicide of that supreme man of tone, Monpavon, the Nabob's apoplectic seizure in the theatre these and many other scenes and episodes, together with descriptions and touches, stand out in our memories more distinctly and impressively than the characters do perhaps more so than does the central motive, the outrageous exploitation of the naive hero.
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