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I dined in my own rooms, and spent the evening in looking over the various billets-doux, received during my sejour at Paris. "Where shall I put all these locks of hair?" asked Bedos, opening a drawer full. "Into my scrap-book." "And all these letters?" "Into the fire." I was just getting into bed when the Duchesse de Perpignan's note arrived it was as follows: "My dear Friend,
The Duke said, 'Ask every living soul in the world, if you can succeed in no other way'; this is all the instruction he has given me; and," added he, with a slight shrug of his shoulders, "I am almost of Perpignan's opinion, that the search will be a fruitless one." "Lecoq did not think so." "He only said that he believed he should succeed if he were to take it in hand."
The expression in Perpignan's face changed from astonishment to fear. "Why, this Mascarin knows everything," muttered he. "No," replied Tantaine, "my master does not know everything, and the proof of this is, that I have come to ask you what occurred between Catenac's client and yourself, and this is the service that we expect from you." "Well, if I must, I must.
I had enjoyed myself to the utmost, while I had, as much as possible, combined profit with pleasure; viz. if I went to the Opera in the evening, I learned to dance in the morning; if I drove to a soiree at the Duchesse de Perpignan's, it was not till I had fenced an hour at the Salon des Assauts d'Armes; and if I made love to the duchess herself it was sure to be in a position I had been a whole week in acquiring from my master of the graces; in short, I took the greatest pains to complete my education.
Complexion dark. Third finger of left hand cut off at first joint. If you confound him, after reading this, with any other man of his profession, you must certainly be rather foolish." "I shall now be able to find him," muttered Catenac. "But that is Perpignan's business.
I had enjoyed myself to the utmost, while I had, as much as possible, combined profit with pleasure; viz. if I went to the Opera in the evening, I learned to dance in the morning; if I drove to a soiree at the Duchesse de Perpignan's, it was not till I had fenced an hour at the Salon des Assauts d'Armes; and if I made love to the duchess herself it was sure to be in a position I had been a whole week in acquiring from my master of the graces; in short, I took the greatest pains to complete my education.
I dined in my own rooms, and spent the evening in looking over the various billets-doux, received during my sejour at Paris. "Where shall I put all these locks of hair?" asked Bedos, opening a drawer full. "Into my scrap-book." "And all these letters?" "Into the fire." I was just getting into bed when the Duchesse de Perpignan's note arrived it was as follows: "My dear Friend,
"What do you mean?" asked he. "Well, suppose, to punish one of your refractory lads, you were to shut him in the cellar. A storm comes on during the night, the gutter gets choked up, the cellar fills with water, and next morning you find the little cherub drowned like a rat in his hole?" Perpignan's face was livid. "Well, and what then?" asked he. "Ah! now the awkward part of the matter comes.
Perpignan's manner was most threatening; but Tantaine still smiled pleasantly, like a child who had just committed some simply mischievous act, the results of which it cannot foresee. "The sentence isn't heavy," he continued; "five years' penal servitude, if evidence of previous good conduct could be put in; but if former antecedents were disclosed, such as a journey to Nancy "
"I think that you overrate Perpignan's talents." "Not a bit; each man to his own line of business. Besides, if he wanders off the course, you must get him back to it. In this you must act diplomatically. His first move will naturally be to take you to the office of the mayor of the township, where a register of licenses is kept.
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