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"They have been making eyes at each other in a heartrending way for a week past." "Yes," he answered. "So she was found guilty." "Who?" "Mme. Morin." "I am talking about Mlle. Victorine," said Mlle, Michonneau, as she entered Poiret's room with an absent air, "and you answer, 'Mme. Morin. Who may Mme. Morin be?" "What can Mlle. Victorine be guilty of?" demanded Poiret.
In Monsieur Poiret's Ecole Martine scores of young French girls, picked up from the gutter or thereabouts, are at this moment creating forms of surprising charm and originality. That they find delight in their work is not disputed.
Poiret's eyes were dim, his glance weak and lifeless, his skin discolored and wrinkled, gray in tone and speckled with bluish dots; his nose flat, his lips drawn inward to the mouth, where a few defective teeth still lingered.
Michonneau's musings did not permit her to listen very closely to the remarks that fell one by one from Poiret's lips like water dripping from a leaky tap. When once this elderly babbler began to talk, he would go on like clockwork unless Mlle. Michonneau stopped him.
Bixiou, who had never seen any other hat on Poiret's head, dreamed of it and declared he tasted it in his food; he therefore resolved, in the interests of his digestion, to relieve the bureau of the sight of that amorphous old hat. Poiret junior left the office regularly at four o'clock.
"Get along with you; you must be dying to go, trahit sua quemque voluptas!" said Bianchon. "Every one to his taste free rendering from Virgil," said the tutor. Mlle. Michonneau made a movement as if to take Poiret's arm, with an appealing glance that he could not resist. The two went out together, the old maid leaning upon him, and there was a burst of applause, followed by peals of laughter.
'Bravo, said I to myself, 'here is the sort of fellow for me. You wanted money. Where was it all to come from? And, then, what will you do? Shall you begin to work? Work, or what you understand by work at this moment, means, for a man of Poiret's calibre, an old age in Mamma Vauquer's lodging-house.
The formalities attending Madame Poiret's examination were over in a few minutes; Coquart read aloud to her the notes he had made of the little scene, and she signed the paper; but the prisoner refused to sign, alleging his ignorance of the forms of French law. "That is enough for to-day," said Monsieur Camusot. "You must be wanting food. I will have you taken back to the Conciergerie." "Alas!
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