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I have always been content with my lot, myself One receives and executes orders and one is satisfied. Everything goes on all right My politics at present is my work; when I shall have broken my back to bring journalists into power I beg your pardon, Monsieur Ramel, you know very well that it is not of you that I speak thus I shall be no fatter for it, I presume.
Borreby Hall, the home of Waldemar Daa, was having a clean sweep of a different sort. The family enemy, Ové Ramel from Basness, appeared, holding the mortgage of the Hall and all its contents. I drummed upon the cracked window panes, beat against the decaying doors, and whistled through all the cracks and crannies, whew! I did my best to prevent Herr Ové taking a fancy to stay there.
"Granet expressed in that more of an after-thought than your old Ramel." "My best friend," said Sulpice with emotion, grasping this man's hands in his. "It is so much more meritorious on your part to tell me that," said Ramel, "seeing that now you do not lack friendships." "You are still a pessimist, Ramel?" "I A wild optimist, seeing that I believe everything and everybody!
Ramel, who the devil would have said that I should be minister when I took you my first article for the Nation Française!" said Vaudrey. "Bah! who is not a minister?" said Ramel. "You are. Remember what Napoléon said to Bourrienne as he entered the Tuileries: 'Here we are, Bourrienne! now we must stay here!" "That is exactly what Granet said to me when he told me of the new combination."
Few will attend, but I ask you to be present that is, if there is no important sitting at the Chamber." Old Ramel twirled his moustache with his long, lean fingers as he spoke these last words into which he infused a dash of irony. He nullified it, however, as he extended his frankly opened hand and said to Sulpice Vaudrey: "What I have said to you is very cheerful! A thousand pardons.
Ida and Anna Dorothea faced it bravely, although they shed some tears; Johanna stood pale and erect and bit her finger till it bled! Much that would help her! Ové Ramel offered to let them stay on at the Castle for Waldemar Daa's lifetime, but he got no thanks for his offer; I was listening. I saw the ruined gentleman stiffen his neck and hold his head higher than ever.
The Gersons would find me as antiquated as Ramel. It is old-fashioned." "I am no longer surprised," added the young wife, "at being so little fashionable. Morally speaking, those hot-houses of platitudes stifle one. Never fear, Sulpice, I shall not be the one to ever again drag you into salons. Are you tired? Are you weary?"
The news of this crime had a strange and unexpected effect; however excited and frenzied the crowd was, it instantly realised the consequences of this act. It was no longer like the murder of Marshal Brune at Avignon or General Ramel at Toulouse, an act of vengeance on a favourite of Napoleon, but open and armed rebellion against the king. It was not a simple murder, it was high treason.
"I swear to you that I will listen to everything," replied Sulpice, "and I will strive to understand everything. And since I have the power " Denis Ramel shook his head: "Power? Ah! you will see if that is ever taken in any but homoeopathic doses!
The minister listened with a somewhat anxious, sober air to these truisms, clear-cut as with a knife, expressed by the old journalist without passion, without exasperation, without anger. He was, in fact, pleased that Ramel should speak to him so candidly. Yes, indeed, what the old "veteran," as Denis sometimes called himself said, were Vaudrey's own sentiments.
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