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"For heaven's sake, open the window on your side, General, it's stifling," said Monpavon, with crimson face, fearing for his paint; and the lowered sashes afforded the worthy populace a view of those exalted functionaries mopping their august faces, which were terribly flushed and wore the same agonized expression of anticipation, anticipation of the bey's arrival, of the storm, of something.
"'Sapristi! said Monpavon, laughing, 'then, my dear Auguste, allow me to be excused from tasting them. Marigny, less familiar, glanced at his plate out of the corner of his eye. "'But, yes, Monpavon, I assure you. They look extremely good, these mushrooms. I am truly sorry that I have no appetite left. "The duke remained very serious.
I have promised the Nabob to present him to the duke, just as, formerly, I presented you. Do not mix yourself up, therefore, with what concerns me alone." Jenkins laid his hand on his heart, protested his innocence. He had never had any intention. Certainly Monpavon was too intimate a friend of the duke, for any other How could he have supposed?
You know, for our big affair ps, ps, ps. Were it not for that, should gladly stay away. Real menagerie, that house." The Irishman, despite his benevolence, agreed that the society was rather mixed at his friend's. But then! One could hardly blame him for it. The poor fellow, he knew no better. "Neither knows nor is willing to learn," remarked Monpavon with bitterness.
While the Corsican with his Italian accent, his frantic gestures, enumerates the splendores of the affair, Monpavon, dignified and haughty, nods his head with an air of conviction, and from time to time, when he deems the moment propitious, tosses into the conversation the name of the Duc de Mora, which always produces its effect on the Nabob. "Well, what is it that you need?"
Jenkins entered the bed-chamber, a banal place like all furnished apartments, and moved towards the fire on which there were set to heat curling-tongs of all sizes, while in the contiguous laboratory, separated from the room by a curtain of Algerian tapestry, the Marquis de Monpavon gave himself up to the manipulations of his valet.
In any case, the bold formula of a judicial assignation in the first instance, instead of a private invitation, spoke sufficiently of the gravity of the situation and the firm resolution of Justice. In view of such an extremity, foreseen and expected for long, he had made his plans. A Monpavon in the criminal courts! a Monpavon, librarian in a convict prison! Never!
It was getting late. La Wauters, who was to sing the "Night" aria from the Magic Flute, after the performance at her theatre, had just arrived all muffled up in her lace hood. And the minister did not come. But it was a promise and everything was understood. Monpavon was to take him up at the club.
"It is indeed the least that Monpavon can do, to enable him to make a few good acquaintances. He has introduced him to so many bad ones. You know that he has just put Paganetti and all his gang on his shoulders." "Poor fellow! But they will devour him." "Bah! It is only fair that he should be made to disgorge a little. He has been such a thief himself away yonder among the Turks."
Some appeared shocked, Monpavon especially. For him, this exposure of rags was in execrable taste, an absolute breach of good manners. Cardailhac, sceptical and dainty, an enemy to scenes of emotion, with face set as if it were hypnotized, sliced a fruit on the end of his fork into wafers as thin as cigarette papers.
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