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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Sibilet heard him say something much more dangerous than that," said Rigou; "and that's what brings me here." "Oh, my poor Sophie!" cried Madame Soudry, sentimentally, alluding to her friend, Mademoiselle Laguerre, "into what hands Les Aigues has fallen! This is what we have gained by the Revolution! a parcel of swaggering epaulets!
This gesture, by which Rigou kept down the process of hand-shaking to the coldest and stiffest of demonstrations would have revealed the whole man to any observer who did not already know him. "Let us find a corner where we can talk quietly," said the ex-monk, looking at Lupin and at Madame Soudry. "Let us return to the salon," replied the queen.
Until the present time the general had been so absorbed in his personal interests and in his marriage that he had never remembered Rigou, but when Sibilet advised him to get himself made mayor in Rigou's place, he took post-horses and went to see the prefect.
Acting by Rigou's advice, he played a part of great devotion to the general; and he was still assistant-mayor at the moment when, by the omnipotence of the historian, this drama begins. In the absence of the mayor, Rigou, necessarily a member of the district council, reigned supreme, and brought forward resolutions all injuriously affecting the general.
"Thanks to those fellows, we keep the ball a-rolling," said Socquard. "But folks are trying to imitate my boiled wine." "Sue them," said Rigou, sententiously. "That would lead too far," replied the innkeeper. "Do your clients get on well together?" "Tolerably, yes; sometimes they'll have a row, but that's only natural for players."
Just as Rigou and Soudry were on their way back to Blangy, the count and countess, Emile Blondet, the lieutenant of gendarmerie, the sergeant, and the mayor of Conches were finishing their breakfast in the splendid dining-room where Bouret's luxury had left the delightful traces already described by Blondet in his letter to Nathan.
But there exists a private signed agreement between you and Rigou, and the Shopman will dismiss his steward whenever the Abbe Brossette lays that document before his eyes; the abbe will be able to do so after receiving an anonymous letter which will inform him of your double-dealing.
Go home, my dear Olympe; and you gentlemen and madame, please to follow the avenue towards Conches." "What a country!" exclaimed the countess. "There are scoundrels everywhere," replied Blondet. "Is it true, Monsieur l'abbe," asked Madame de Montcornet, "that I saved the poor child from the clutches of Rigou?"
The son of that infamous innkeeper of the Grand-I-Vert, Nicolas, the worst fellow in the whole district, wants her; he hunts her like game. Though I can't believe that Monsieur Rigou, who changes his servant-girls every year or two is persecuting such a little fright, it is quite certain that Nicolas Tonsard is. Justin told me so.
"What has the Shopman done now?" asked Soudry, sitting down beside his wife and putting his arm about her waist. Madame Soudry, like other old women, forgave a great deal in return for such public marks of tenderness. "Why," said Rigou, in a low voice, to set an example of caution, "he has gone to the Prefecture to demand the enforcement of the penalties; he wants the help of the authorities."
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