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I count upon you and Mademoiselle Jeanne." "On all three of us?" "That makes three, with me; yes, sir." "Excuse me, four." "I hope the fourth will have the sense to go and dine elsewhere." "Come, come, Monsieur Mouillard; your nephew, your ward " "I ceased to be his guardian four years ago, and his uncle three weeks ago." "He longs to put an end to this ill feeling "
But no, he told the story from pure love of his art, without omitting an interlocutory judgment, or a judgment reserved, just as he would have told the story of Helen and Paris, if he had been employed in that well-known case. Not a word about myself. I waited, yet nothing came but the successive steps in the action. After the ice, M. Mouillard called for a cigar.
If she perceived any break in the gloom which enveloped M. Mouillard, she was to let me know; if I were obliged to put off my interview to the morrow, and to pass the night on the sofa-bed in the library, she was to bring me something to eat, a rug, and "the pillow you used in your holidays when you were a boy."
"You wouldn't take the practice if I could still offer it to you?" "No, uncle." "Upon your word?" "Upon my word!" M. Mouillard drew himself up, beaming: "Ah! Thank you for that speech, Fabien; you have relieved me of a great weight." With one corner of his napkin he wiped away two tears, which, having arisen in time of war, continued to flow in time of peace.
Eight o'clock.... Counsellor Mouillard has finished his pleadings and must be sitting down to a game of whist with Counsellors Horlet and Hublette, of the Court of Bourges. They wait for me to make up the four. Perish the awful prospect! And M. Charnot? He, I suppose, is still spinning the paper spiral. How easily serious people are amused! Perhaps I am a serious person. The least thing amuses me.
"By Jove! it's madness at my age, but I don't care. We'll renew our youth for an hour or so. My dear Mouillard, Jupille has ordered dinner for us here. Had I been consulted I should have chosen any other place. Yet what's to be done? Hunger, friendship, and the fact that I can't catch the train, combine to silence my scruples. What do you say?" "That we are in for it now." "So be it, then."
That book of reference they are consulting is of course the catalogue of the sale where this treasure was purchased. I shall have to replace the Early Text! O Uncle Mouillard!" I sat there, abandoned to my sad reflections, when one of the attendants, whom I had not seen approaching, touched me on the shoulder. "The keeper wishes to speak to you." I rose up and went.
Eight o'clock.... Counsellor Mouillard has finished his pleadings and must be sitting down to a game of whist with Counsellors Horlet and Hublette, of the Court of Bourges. They wait for me to make up the four. Perish the awful prospect! And M. Charnot? He, I suppose, is still spinning the paper spiral. How easily serious people are amused! Perhaps I am a serious person. The least thing amuses me.
"Do you think that if I were to look him in the face, as I now look at you, and to say to him: 'Monsieur Mouillard, will you not consent to my becoming your niece? do you think that then he would give in?" "Alas! Mademoiselle, why can not it be tried?" "It certainly is difficult, but I won't say it can not."
My porter's wife came up just now, wreathed in smiles. "Monsieur Mouillard, I wish you a Happy New Year, good health, and Heaven to end your days." She had just said the same to the tenants on the first, second, and third floors. My answer was the same as theirs. This smile comes only once a year; it is not reproduced at any other period, but is a dividend payable in one instalment.
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