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"In a few words I give you my opinion Those who have just murdered the father have also ruined the daughter." By daylight Lydie had yielded to fatigue; when the great surgeon and the young physician arrived she was asleep. The doctor, whose duty it was to sign the death certificate, had now opened Peyrade's body, and was seeking the cause of death.
One thing is very sure; this monsieur had a debt of twenty-five thousand francs which harassed him much; and a short time before the seizure this same monsieur, who had no means of his own, paid off that debt; and unless you can tell me where else he got the money, the inference I think is not difficult to draw." It was la Peyrade's turn to look fixedly at Thuillier.
The door, like that of Peyrade's room, was constructed of a plate of sheet-iron three lines thick, sandwiched between two strong oak planks, fitted with locks and elaborate hinges, making it as impossible to force it as if it were a prison door. Thus, though the house had a public passage through it, with a shop below and no doorkeeper, Lydie lived there without a fear.
Corentin, recovering from the pain of the blow, caught Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne by both hands, and held her. "Do not compel me to use force against you," he said, with withering politeness. Peyrade's action had extinguished the fire by the natural process of suppressing the air. "Gendarmes! here!" he cried, still occupying his ridiculous position.
Warned at once by the swift and anxious instinct that scents the presence of an enemy, Collin examined this figure; he saw at a glance that the eyes were not so old as the costume would suggest, and he detected a disguise. In one second Jacques Collin was revenged on Corentin for the rapid insight with which Corentin had unmasked him at Peyrade's.
Dutocq paid no attention to this sensitiveness, and the next morning, very early, he presented himself at la Peyrade's. La Peyrade paid, as he had promised, on the nail, and to a few sentinel remarks uttered by Dutocq as soon as the money was in his pocket, he answered with marked coldness.
Come and see us, and bring that manuscript; la Peyrade's point of view may be a little arbitrary." With this balm shed upon his wound, Phellion departed, and Thuillier rang the bell for the porter. "Could you recognize the gentlemen who has just gone out the next time you see him?" asked Thuillier.
"Don't you think, sister," said Brigitte to Madame Thuillier, "that we had better take coffee in the salon?" Madame Thuillier obediently assumed the air of mistress of the house, and rose. "Ah! you are a great wizard," said Flavie Colleville, accepting la Peyrade's arm to return to the salon. "And yet I care only to bewitch you," he answered. "I think you more enchanting than ever this evening."
On reaching his house in the Rue des Vignes, one of the quietest and prettiest nooks of the little town of Passy, Corentin, who was known there as a retired merchant passionately devoted to gardening, found his friend Peyrade's note in cipher. Instead of resting, he got into the hackney coach that had brought him thither, and was driven to the Rue des Moineaux, where he found only Katt.
This expression did not escape an observer of la Peyrade's strength, but not being a man to advance very far on a single remark he merely replied: "Madame, the vulgar expression, to 'settle down, explains this situation, in which a man, after many struggles and being at an end of his efforts and his illusions, makes a compromise with the future.
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