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"But why can't I find persons to lease the right of cutting timber as before?" "Monsieur le comte has enemies." "Who are they?" "Well, in the first place, Monsieur Gaubertin." "Do you mean the scoundrel whose place you took?" "Not so loud, Monsieur le comte," said Sibilet, showing fear; "I beg of you, not so loud, my cook might hear us."
I shall not part with another steward till I'm sure of a better. I am waiting to get rid of Sibilet, till you understand the business of steward well enough to take his place, and till Vatel is fit to succeed you. And yet, I have no ground of complaint against Sibilet. He is honest and punctual in all his dealings; he hasn't kept back a hundred francs in all these five years.
Young Sibilet, a relative of Gaubertin, by a connection rather difficult to trace through family ramifications which make members of the middle classes in all the smaller towns cousins to each other, owed a modest position in a government office to the assistance of his father and Gaubertin. The unlucky fellow had the terrible happiness of being the father of two children in three years.
As to the Keeper of the Seals, that functionary is often changed; whereas we WE are always here, and can bide our time." "Well, I've warned you," returned Sibilet, feeling like a donkey under a pack-saddle. "Warned me of what?" said Rigou, artfully. "Of what the Shopman is going to do," answered the steward, humbly. "He started for the Prefecture in a rage." "Let him go!
"Well, Maitre Sibilet," said the general to his steward, the morning after his arrival, giving him a familiar title which showed how much he appreciated his services, "so we are, to use a ministerial phrase, at a crisis?" "Yes, Monsieur le comte," said Sibilet, following the general.
"Monsieur Sibilet, and you, Monsieur Michaud, are to make it known, cautiously, that I will pay a thousand francs to whoever will arrest in the act the person or persons who are killing my trees; they must also discover the instrument with which the work is done, and where it was bought. I have settled upon a plan."
If the Montcornets and their kind didn't use wheels, what would become of the carriage-makers?" "I shall bring you three thousand francs to-night," said Sibilet, "but you ought to make over some of your maturing mortgages to me, say, one or two that would secure to me good lots of land." "Well, there's that of Courtecuisse.
"I shall not decide," he answered, "without thoroughly informing myself about all applicants; but I will not look elsewhere until I have examined whether or not your son-in-law possesses the requirements for the place." Then, turning to Madame Sibilet he added, "The satisfaction of settling so charming a person at Les Aigues "
"Come, curse, swear, be furious! your self-control may hurt you more than anger!" "I'll go and smoke," said the general, turning toward the kiosk. During breakfast Michaud came in; he had found no one. Sibilet, whom the count had sent for, came also.
The latter was a man who scratched a living from day to day; he was one of the delinquents collected in Blangy under the sort of subscription invented by Sibilet and Courtecuisse to disgust the general by the results of his indictments.
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