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Updated: June 5, 2025
No, my dear des Lupeaulx, the thing in hand is to win all now for your Celestine. You may make as many faces as you please, Madame la comtesse, but you will invite Madame Rabourdin to your next select party." Des Lupeaulx was one of those men who to satisfy a passion are quite able to put away revenge in some dark corner of their minds.
In the two bureaus were two clerks so devoted to each other that their friendship became the butt of all the rest. He of the bureau Baudoyer, named Colleville, was chief-clerk, and would have been head of the bureau long before if the Restoration had never happened. His wife was as clever in her way as Madame Rabourdin in hers.
"Then tell it to me!" cried Rabourdin, angry for the first time since his marriage. "There! it is half-past six o'clock; finish shaving and dress at once," she cried hastily, after the fashion of women when pressed on a point they are not ready to talk of. "I must go; we'll adjourn the discussion, for I don't want to be nervous on a reception-day.
Rabourdin noticed that Phellion's eyes were moist, and he could not refrain from wringing his hand. "Monsieur," said the good man, "if we can serve you in any way, make use of us." Monsieur Rabourdin shut himself up in the late chief's office with Monsieur Baudoyer, and Phellion helped him to show the new incumbent all the administrative difficulties of his new position.
But, my dear friend, you are still young enough to be loved by a pretty woman for yourself " "If La Billardiere's place is given to Rabourdin I may be believed when I praise the superiority of his wife," replied des Lupeaulx, piqued by the minister's sarcasm; "but if Madame la Comtesse would be willing to judge for herself " "You want me to invite her to my next ball, don't you?
Besides, you will see that she is not of a kind to compromise a salon." "Invite Madame Rabourdin, my dear," said the minister, "and pray let us talk of something else." Parisian households are literally eaten up with the desire to be in keeping with the luxury that surrounds them on all sides, and few there are who have the wisdom to let their external situation conform to their internal revenue.
In the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the man of courage and audacity, professed the opinions of the Left centre, and rebelled against the tyrannies of Baudoyer as exercised upon what he called the unhappy slaves of that office. His name was Fleury.
You will thus get back an important office to give to friends; it may come in at the right moment to facilitate some compromise." "But I have pledged it to Rabourdin." "That may be; and I don't ask you to make the change this very day. I know the danger of saying yes and no within twenty-four hours.
Des Lupeaulx had counted on the minister's preoccupation and his desire to get away; seeing him for the moment occupied with his wife, the general-secretary went forward to meet Rabourdin; whom he petrified with his first words, said in a low tone of voice:
When Rabourdin came back to the courtyard, after making sure that his letter would go straight into the minister's hands, he found Sebastien in tears, with a copy of the lithograph, which the lad reluctantly handed over to him. "It is very clever," said Rabourdin, showing a serene brow to his companion, though the crown of thorns was on it all the same.
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