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To this the other agreed absent-mindedly, repeating "Yes, yes, yes!" several times in succession, without his mind having yet settled itself on this new idea. Olivier endeavored to continue the subject, and in order to attract his attention by one of Musadieu's own favorite fads, he continued: "She will have one of the first salons in Paris after her marriage."
He still held Musadieu by the arm, and once or twice attempted to continue, by contradicting Musadieu's opinions, the talk about the future Marquise. Even that commonplace voice in speaking of her caused her charming image to flit beside them in the night. When they arrived at the painter's door, in the Avenue de Villiers, Bertin asked: "Will you come in?" "No, thank you.
Bertin, who was still more exasperated by Musadieu's presence since Annette had gone, was incensed at this recital, and declared, with the indignation of one who had known of the scandal but did not wish to speak of it to anyone, that the story was an odious falsehood, one of those shameful lies which people of their world ought neither to listen to nor repeat.
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