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Updated: June 5, 2025
The private offices and antechambers of the heads of the two bureaus, Monsieur Rabourdin and Monsieur Baudoyer, were below on the second floor, and beyond that of Monsieur Rabourdin were the antechamber, salon, and two offices of Monsieur de la Billardiere.
"I said nothing against Monsieur Rabourdin; only it has just been told to me in confidence that he has written a paper denouncing all the clerks and officials, and full of facts about their lives; in short, the reason why his friends support him is because he has written this paper against the administration, in which we are all exposed " Bixiou. "Very proper in you to say so. Bixiou.
Though he knew himself incapable of important work, Dutocq was well aware that in a government office incapacity was no hindrance to advancement; La Billardiere's own appointment over the head of so capable a man as Rabourdin had been a striking and fatal example of this.
"They have gone into Monsieur Baudoyer's office to see a paper which it is said " Poiret. "Well, I never! Monsieur Rabourdin!" Phellion. "But did you notice how calm and dignified he was?" Phellion. "A man of honor; pure and spotless." Poiret. "Who is?" Phellion. "Monsieur Poiret, you think as I think about Dutocq; surely you understand me?" Fleury. "A great shock; I still don't believe the thing.
"What has happened?" Dutocq. "Do you remember what I said to you about that caricature?" Bixiou. "Yes, what then?" Dutocq. "Make it, and you shall be under-head-clerk with a famous fee. The fact is, my dear fellow, there's dissension among the powers that be. The minister is pledged to Rabourdin, but if he doesn't appoint Baudoyer he offends the priests and their party.
He had too prying an eye not to have guessed that Rabourdin was engaged in some great work outside of his official labors, and he was provoked to feel that he knew nothing about it, whereas that little Sebastien was, wholly or in part, in the secret.
Ah! that wretch of a Dutocq; it was he who stole the paper." His tears and sobs recommenced and made so much noise that Rabourdin came up to see what was the matter. He found the young fellow almost fainting in the arms of Poiret and Phellion. Rabourdin. "What is the matter, gentlemen?" That memorandum, Dutocq, the monster, he must have taken it." Phellion.
It produces whence and how, who knows? women like this person, who seems ready to will and to do anything." "She really does will, and does do everything," put in des Lupeaulx, puffed up with satisfaction. At this moment the wily Madame Rabourdin was courting the minister's wife.
He thereupon related what he called his scene at the ministry and the jealousy of the countess, repeating her remarks about the invitation he had asked her to send to Madame Rabourdin.
'Xavier Rabourdin, chef de bureau D'abord reva bureaux, e-u fin riche. If I were named 'Charles X., par la grace de Dieu roi de France et de Navarre, I should tremble in my shoes at the fate those letters anagrammatize." Thuillier. "Look here! are you making fun?" Bixiou. "No, I am not. Rabourdin resigns in a rage at finding Baudoyer appointed director."
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