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Above all, ought he to have capped these sulks by a proceeding which I can't forgive, and which only just made known to us has struck the girl's heart with despair, and also with a feeling of extreme irritation?" "My son capable of any such act! it is quite impossible, madame!" cried Phellion. "I know nothing of this proceeding; but I do not hesitate to affirm that you have been ill-informed."
At this argument, stated in a way to leave no possible doubt, the truth began to dawn upon Phellion. "Felix, my son!" he said, rising to embrace him. But he was obliged to sit down again; his legs refused to bear his weight; he turned pale; and that nature, ordinarily so impassible, seemed about to give way under the shock of this happiness.
"Oh, yes, m'sieu, his round ball of a head is too funny to forget; besides, it is Monsieur Phellion; haven't I opened the door to him hundreds of times?" "Well, whenever he comes again neither I nor Monsieur de la Peyrade will be here. Remember that's a positive rule. Now leave us." "The devil!" cried la Peyrade, when the two partners were alone, "how you manage bores.
"My dear boy," she said to Theodose, "it was very nice of you not to come here to-day like a grasp-all, to put your pistol at our throats, for we were not, as it happened, quite ready to answer you. I think," she added, "that our little Celeste needs a trifle more time." "Then," said la Peyrade, quickly, "she has not decided in favor of Monsieur Felix Phellion?"
Being now in a position to bestow a great number of places, Rabourdin, on meeting once more his faithful subordinate, hastened to offer him a position both easy and lucrative. "Mossieu," said Phellion, "your benevolence touches me and honors me, but my frankness owes you an avowal, which I beg you not to take in ill part: I do not believe in 'railways, as the English call them."
From time immemorial in the Phellion establishment, Sunday was the day of the "pot-au-feu," and the wife of the great citizen, in that intentionally dowdy costume in which good housekeepers bundle themselves when they go to market, was prosaically returning from a visit to the butcher, followed by her cook and the basket, in which lay a magnificent cut of the loin of beef.
It is I, monsieur, who solicit, humbly, the honor to be your friend." "What can be happening?" said Madame Phellion, watching the scene through the window. "Do see your father and that horrid man embracing each other." Phellion and la Peyrade now came out and joined the family in the garden.
"Monsieur Phellion," said the countess, "you are not one too many in the conference I desire with madame; on the contrary, your excellent judgment will be most useful in throwing light upon a matter as interesting to you as to your wife. I allude to the marriage of your son."
"He seems to keep aloof from our strictures, the dear husband!" cried Minard; "but just see how he goes beyond them!" "I!" said Phellion; "it is neither my intention nor my habit to do so." "All the same it would be difficult to say more neatly that the Thuilliers are geese, and that Madame de Godollo is bringing them up by hand."
"See how all things link together," remarked Phellion, "and how, from the summits of society, luxury infiltrates itself, sooner or later, through the lower classes, leading to the ruin of empires." "You are broaching there, my dear commander," said Minard, "one of the most knotty questions of political economy.
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