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A gleam of joy flitted over Petit-Claud's countenance. "We still have a whole day before the prefect's dinner; I will answer for everything." An hour later, as Petit-Claud and Lucien walked home together, Lucien talked of his success. "Well, my dear fellow, I came, I saw, I conquered! Sechard will be very happy in a few hours' time." "Just what I wanted to know," thought Petit-Claud.
But now that the little lawyer cherished hopes of office, he saw that he must turn his back upon the Liberals; and, meanwhile, the amount for the printing-office had been subscribed in L'Houmeau. Petit-Claud decided to allow things to take their natural course. "Pooh!" he thought, "Cerizet will get into trouble with his paper, and give me an opportunity of displaying my talents."
Maitre Cachan, Petit-Claud, and Doublon, did better than the Austrian generals; they took for their example Quintus Fabius Cunctator the Austrian of antiquity. Petit-Claud, malignant as a mule, was not long in finding out all the advantages of his position.
To-night, however, we must keep a close watch over Lucien and Mme. la Comtesse du Chatelet, for the whole business lies in that. . . . If Lucien hopes to succeed through the Countess' influence, I have David safe " "You will be Keeper of the Seals yet, it is my belief," said Cointet. "And why not? No one objects to M. de Peyronnet," said Petit-Claud.
While Petit-Claud was busy securing the household property of his clients, he gained the day at Poitiers on the point of law on which the demurrer and appeals were based. He held that, as the court of the Seine had ordered the plaintiff to pay costs of proceedings in the Paris commercial court, David was so much the less liable for expenses of litigation incurred upon Lucien's account.
David Sechard must be set at liberty before those experiments can be made; and David Sechard, set at liberty, will slip through our fingers." Everybody involved, moreover, had his own little afterthought. Petit-Claud, for instance, said, "As soon as I am married, I will slip my neck out of the Cointets' yoke; but till then I shall hold on."
The Cointets, Cerizet, and Petit-Claud all the men whom Eve felt instinctively to be her enemies had turned hard, indifferent eyes on her; with the deputy-magistrate, therefore, she felt at ease, although, in spite of his kindly courtesy, he swept all her hopes away by his first words.
"Give them the glimpse of a possibility of money in hand," the lynx had said, when Petit-Claud brought the news of the arrest; "once let them grow accustomed to that idea, and they are ours; we will drive a bargain, and little by little we shall bring them down to our price for the secret." The argument of the second act of the commercial drama was in a manner summed up in that speech. Mme.
"Well, I'm blessed if a man wouldn't do anything for the thing you promised me." Petit-Claud walked away from the hoarding, and paced up and down in the Place du Murier; he watched the windows of the room where the family sat together, and thought of his own prospects to keep up his courage. Cerizet's cleverness had given him the chance of striking the final blow.
At ten o'clock the party began to break up, and little knots of guests went home together. David Sechard heard the unwonted music. "What is going on in L'Houmeau?" he asked of Basine. "They are giving a dinner to your brother-in-law, Lucien " "I know that he would feel sorry to miss me there," he said. At midnight Petit-Claud walked home with Lucien.
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