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We shall have to spend twenty thousand to make the house habitable; the land doesn't return a rental of more than four thousand; so that our money, all expenses deducted, won't return us more than two and a half per cent." "What are you complaining about?" returned Achille Pigoult. "You have employment to give and money to pay in the neighborhood, and what can be better for a candidate?"
The good woman did not sell her landed property, most of which came from the unfortunate Michu, the former bailiff of the Simeuse family; she paid the sum to Phileas in ready money, advising him to buy out the business of his employer, Monsieur Pigoult, the son of the old justice of the peace, whose affairs were in so bad a way that his death, as we have said, was thought to be voluntary.
These nominations were naturally very displeasing to Fromaget, the apothecary, and Marcelin the solicitor. "You enable us," said Achille Pigoult, "to manifest our independence. Therefore you may feel more pride in being rejected than you could have felt in being chosen." Everybody laughed.
"Are you really sure that that person who declared himself my father was the Marquis de Sallenauve, and that I am truly his son?" "Mother Marie-des-Anges and Achille Pigoult, by whom I was warned of this plot, have no more doubt than I have of the existence of the Marquis de Sallenauve; this gossip with which they threaten you has, in my judgment, but one dangerous aspect.
"Yes, that is true," said old Pigoult, adopting his son's opinion without hesitation. "In short," said Jacques Bricheteau, "you think the matter can go on." "You see that my father, a man of great experience, did not hesitate to agree with me.
"So you went to that meeting?" said Antonin Goulard to Poupart. "I shall never go again, monsieur le sous-prefet," said the innkeeper. "The son of Monsieur Keller is dead, and I have now no object in going there. God has taken upon himself to clear the ground." "Well, Pigoult, what happened?" cried Olivier Vinet, catching sight of the young notary.
The reaction produced in France by the introduction of the Portuguese cotton caused the death of Pigoult, Achille's father, and began the fortune of Phileas, who, far from losing his head like his master, made his prices moderate by buying cotton cheaply and in doubling the quantity ventured upon by his predecessor.
"It is selling wheat dear and keeping bread cheap," cried Achille Pigoult sarcastically, thinking that he made a joke, but actually expressing one of the delusions that reign in France. "It is the happiness of all, obtained by the triumph of humanitarian doctrines," continued Simon. "What did I tell you?" said Achille to his neighbors. "Hush! silence! let us listen!" said various voices.
"Unanimous, to-day," remarked Monsieur Martener. "Oh!" exclaimed Pigoult, "the general sentiment of the electors is for one of their own townsmen. Whom can you oppose to Simon Giguet, a man who has just spent two hours in explaining the word progress." "Take old Grevin!" cried the sub-prefect. "He has no such ambition," replied Pigoult. "But we must first of all consult the Comte de Gondreville.
The latter, named Pigoult, formerly head-clerk in the office where Malin and Grevin had first studied law in Paris, was soon after appointed judge of the municipal court at Arcis. In relation to Michu, Lechesneau knew of the threats the man had made about the sale of Gondreville to Marion, and the danger Malin had escaped in his own park from Michu's gun.
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