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Updated: June 23, 2025
Because of his professional relations with them, Monsieur Peloux had an extensive acquaintance among criminals of varying shades of intensity at times, in his dubious doings, they could be useful to him hidden away in the shadowy nooks and corners of the city; and he also had his emissaries through whom they could be reached.
Distinctly, I do not exclude from Madame Jolicoeur's choice that gallant Major: whose rank now approaching him to the command of a regiment, and fairly equalling the position at the bar achieved by Monsieur Peloux has been won, grade by grade, by deeds of valour in his African campaignings which have made him conspicuous even in the army that stands first in such matters of all the armies of the world.
Therefore, to the avoidance of that too radical conclusion, Madame Jolicoeur engaged in her debatings briskly: offering to herself, in effect, the balanced arguments advanced by Monsieur Fromagin in favour equally of Monsieur Peloux and of the Major Gontard; taking as her own, with moderating exceptions and emendations, the views of Madame Gauthier as to the meagreness and pallid baldness of the one and the sturdiness and gallant bearing of the other; considering, from the standpoint of her own personal knowledge in the premises, the Notary's disposition toward a secretive reticence that bordered upon severity, in contrast with the cordially frank and debonair temperament of the Major; and, at the back of all, keeping well in mind the fundamental truths that opportunity ever is evanescent and that time ever is on the wing.
If M'sieu' will have the amiability to await her in the salon, it will be for but a point of time!" Between this maid-servant and Monsieur Peloux no love was lost. Instinctively he was aware of, and resented, her views practically identical with those expressed by Madame Gauthier to Monsieur Fromagin touching his deserts as compared with the deserts of the Major Gontard.
But even without perceiving the mitigating subtlety of its comminative final clause so skilfully worded as to leave Monsieur Peloux free to bring off his threatened unmeritedly despairing death quite at his own convenience Madame Jolicoeur did not find it satisfying.
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