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Updated: June 23, 2025
"It is of the professional duty of advocates," replied Monsieur Fromagin, sententiously, "to defend their clients; on the successful discharge of that duty irrespective of minor details depends their fame. Madame neglects the fact that Monsieur Peloux, by his masterly conduct of the case that she specifies, won for himself from his legal colleagues an immense applause."
And we may laugh together the better because, in the roots of her jesting, we have our sympathies. I also have an intensity of affection for cats" to be just to Monsieur Peloux, who loathed cats, it must be said that he gulped as he made this flagrantly untruthful statement "and with this admirable cat, so dear to Madame, it goes to make itself that we speedily become enduring friends."
"For example," interrupted Madame Gauthier, "the case of the insurance solicitor, in whose countless defraudings my own brother was a sufferer: a creature of a vileness, whose deserts were unnumbered ages of dungeons and who, thanks to the chicaneries of Monsieur Peloux, at this moment walks free as air!"
Almost with a groan, he removed his hat and dried with his handkerchief what were in a way his tears of shame. Over the interview between Monsieur Peloux and his hireling cheerfully moistened, on the side of the hireling, with absinthe of a vileness in keeping with its place of purchase decency demands the partial drawing of a veil.
Moreover although, admittedly, in that way Monsieur Peloux makes a better showing he is of an easy affluence. On the Camargue he has his excellent estate in vines, from which comes a revenue more than sufficing to satisfy more than modest wants.
Indeed, it was only the preposterous temerity of Monsieur Brisson despairingly clutching at any chance to retrieve his broken fortunes that put him in the running at all. With the others, in such slighting terms referred to by Madame Vic Monsieur Peloux, a notary of standing, and the Major Gontard, of the Twenty-ninth of the Line the case was different. It had its sides.
In brief, Monsieur Peloux his guilty eyes averted, the shame-tears streaming afresh from his bald head presented his criminal demand and stated the sum that he would pay for its gratification. This sum being in keeping with his own estimate of what it paid for was so much in excess of the hireling's views concerning the value of a mere cat-killing that he fairly jumped at it.
Observe: Here is Monsieur Peloux to whose trifling leanness and aristocratic baldness the thoughtful give no attention easily a notary in the very first rank. As we all know, his services are sought in cases of the most exigent importance "
With these substantial points in his favour, the standing of the Major Gontard in this matter practically is of a parity with the standing of Monsieur Peloux.
The cheerfully sane tone of the lady's voice forbade him to clutch at the poor solace to be found in the first alternative and so forced him to accept the second. Yielding for a moment to his emotions, the death-whiteness of his bald head taking on a still deathlier pallor, Monsieur Peloux buried his face in his hands and groaned.
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