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"No, madame," replied Achille Pigoult; "but he is, without knowing it, like the clown of a circus, the centre of the eyes of the two thousand inhabitants of this town. I know one thing about him," added the little notary. "Oh, tell us, Monsieur Achille!" cried Ernestine, eagerly. "His tiger's name is Paradise!" "Paradise!" echoed every one included in the little circle.
"But there's no use cajoling him," continued Pigoult. "Cecile's hand does not depend on either her father or her mother." "On whom, then?" "On my old patron, Monsieur Grevin. Even if Simon is elected deputy, the town is not won."
I know who that stranger is. He's " "The president of a railway from Paris to Lyons, or Paris to Dijon, or from Montereau to Troyes." "That's true," said Antonin. "You have it. There's nothing but speculation that is welcomed everywhere." "Yes, just see how great names, great families, the old and the new peerage are rushing hot-foot into enterprises and partnerships," said Achille Pigoult.
A moment later a second deed made me possessor, on payment of one hundred and eighty thousand francs in ready money, of the Chateau d'Arcis, a grand edifice which had caught my eye, on my first arrival in the town, by its lordly and feudal air. "You may congratulate yourselves," said Achille Pigoult, "that you have got that estate for a song."
This preliminary discussion on forms had already made Simon extremely uneasy, and had also aroused the attention of the sixty assembled bourgeois. Presently they began to write their ballots, and the wily Pigoult contrived to obtain a majority for Monsieur Mollot, the clerk of the court, and Monsieur Godivet, the registrar.
"Can a man be called Paradise?" asked Madame Herbelot, who had joined her sister-in-law. "It tends to prove," continued the notary, "that the master is an angel; for when his tiger follows him you understand." "It is the road of Paradise! very good, that," said Madame Marion, anxious to flatter Achille Pigoult in the interests of her nephew.
"As for this domicile," said Achille Pigoult, "Monsieur le marquis appears to have none in France, as he does not reside in this country, and has owned no property here for a long time." "It is true," said the marquis, seeming to put more meaning into his words than they naturally carried, "I am a mere vagabond in France."
Though the sub-prefect and Frederic Marest tried to get an explanation of these words, Pigoult refused to give the reason of an exclamation which seemed to them big with meaning and implying a certain knowledge of the plans of the Beauvisage family.
"Pardon me, Monsieur le president," said Achille Pigoult, "the chairman presides, he does not speak." "Messieurs," continued Beauvisage, prompted by Simon, "if we are to conform to parliamentary usage I shall beg the honorable gentleman Monsieur Pigoult to address the meeting from this table here present "
But even supposing that by an utter impossibility their close union should, under present circumstances, be sundered, we are certainly sure of Achille Pigoult, Grevin's successor, on whom, when the purchase of the chateau d'Arcis was made in his office by the Marquis de Sallenauve, a fee was bestowed of such an unusual amount that to accept it was virtually to pledge himself.
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