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"We are going to hear the truth about nuts," said Cesar, half to himself. "Nuts?" said Popinot. "There you have my secret," said the perfumer. "I've let loose the word nuts, all is there. The oil of nuts is the only oil that has any real effect upon hair. No perfumer has ever dreamed of it.
"You do not suppose that Madame Jeanrenaud may have influenced him by mysticism?" "No, monsieur." "You have a very fine house, madame," said Popinot suddenly, taking his hands out of his pockets, and rising to pick up his coat-tails and warm himself. "This boudoir is very nice, those chairs are magnificent, the whole apartment is sumptuous.
"Presently, some of them, ultimately all; for some lingered a few years in French prisons, like that great Popinot, the father of monsieur who has caused us so much trouble." "And you ?" "Why," Lanyard laughed, "I have managed to keep out of jail, so I presume I must have kept my vow to be good." "And no backsliding?" Phinuit suggested with a leer. "Ah! you must not ask me to tell you everything.
Come, now, between ourselves, when one sees a Minard, that gilded pot, displaying himself at the Tuileries, and complimenting the king, and a Popinot about to become a minister of State, and then look at you! a man trained to administrative work, a man with thirty years' experience, who has seen six governments, left to plant balsams in a little garden! Heavens and earth!
The mutual satisfaction of Cesar and Anselme, betrayed by looks diplomatically exchanged, the glance full of hope which Popinot cast now and then at Cesarine, proclaimed some great event and gave color to the conjectures of the clerks. In their busy and half cloistral life the smallest events have the interest which a prisoner feels in those of his prison.
"Also, a few lines from your uncle, written a day or two before he breathed his last, suggested what I could do for your mother, whom he loved very truly. Mesdames Popinot, de Rastignac, de Navarreins, d'Espard, de Grandlieu, de Carigliano, de Lenoncourt, and de la Batie have made a place for your mother as a Lady Superintendent of their charities.
Gusts of mingled perfumes soothed the soul; the Countess was clinking in her hand the five gold pieces given to her by a supposititious dealer in fashionable frippery, another of Octave's accomplices found for him by a judge, M. Popinot. "'I earn my living by amusing myself, said she; 'I am free, when men, armed with their laws, have tried to make us slaves.
"I cannot bear to keep them waiting, poor souls! Well, and what do you want of me?" "I have come to ask you to dine to-morrow with the Marquise d'Espard." "A relation of ours?" asked Popinot, with such genuine absence of mind that Bianchon laughed.
Why, what had I? The will to get on, and plenty of pluck. At this day du Tillet is a match for the greatest folks; little Popinot, the richest druggist of the Rue des Lombards, became a deputy, now he is in office.
Cesarine and Popinot distributed their invitations with much discretion. Both dreaded the publicity of a wedding, and they escaped the jar such scenes must cause to pure and tender hearts by giving the ball on the evening of the day appointed for signing the marriage-contract. Constance found in her room the gown of cherry velvet in which she had shone for a single night with fleeting splendor.
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