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In point of fact, Stidmann was reflecting that if Steinbock were not his friend, Hortense, the young and superbly beautiful countess, would be an adorable mistress; it was this very notion, controlled by honor, that kept him away from the house. Lisbeth was quick to mark the significant awkwardness that troubles a man in the presence of a woman with whom he will not allow himself to flirt.
"Very good-looking that young man," said she in a whisper to Hortense. "Oh, do you think so?" she replied. "I never noticed him." "Stidmann, my good fellow," said Wenceslas, in an undertone to his friend, "we are on no ceremony, you and I we have some business to settle with this old girl." Stidmann bowed to the ladies and went away.
If I inquire point-blank for Steinbock, I shall be laughed at to my face. Take the bull by the horns!" Reine appeared in answer to his ring. "Tell Monsieur le Comte Steinbock to come at once, his wife is dying " Reine, quite a match for Stidmann, looked at him with blank surprise. "But, sir I don't know did you suppose " "I tell you that my friend Monsieur Steinbock is here; his wife is very ill.
Stidmann asked me to make something out of them, as he is very busy." "But these," she said in a deep voice, "are Hortensias. How is it that you have never made anything in wax for me? Is it so difficult to design a pin, a little box what not, as a keepsake?" and she shot a fearful glance at the artist, whose eyes were happily lowered. "And yet you say you love me?"
By his manner of accenting the last word it was impossible to mistake the insulting meaning he intended to attach to it. The two gentlemen having left their seats, without this scene attracting any notice, in consequence of the stalls being empty for the most part during the entr'acte, Monsieur Dorlange saw at some distance the celebrated sculptor Stidmann, and went up to him.
How much do you want?" "Well, five or six thousand francs." "I have but three thousand at the most," said Lisbeth. "And what is Wenceslas doing now?" "He has had an offer to work in partnership with Stidmann at a table service for the Duc d'Herouville for six thousand francs. Then Monsieur Chanor will advance four thousand to repay Monsieur de Lora and Bridau a debt of honor."
"What has happened?" he asked. "If you go up to Mademoiselle Mirah's rooms, Monsieur le Baron, you will find Mademoiselle Heloise Brisetout there and Monsieur Bixiou, Monsieur Leon de Lora, Monsieur Lousteau, Monsieur de Vernisset, Monsieur Stidmann; and ladies smelling of patchouli holding a housewarming." "Then, where where is ?" "Mademoiselle Mirah? I don't know that I ought to tell you."
Subsequently, Sonet and Vitelot had turned the Three Glorious Days "les trois glorieuses" into the Army, Finance, and the Family, and sent in the design for the sepulchre of the late lamented Charles Keller; and here again Stidmann took the commission.
"You did not take a coach to come home?" "No." "And you have walked from the Rue des Tournelles?" "Stidmann and Bixiou came back with me along the boulevards as far as the Madeleine, talking all the way." "It is dry then on the boulevards and the Place de la Concorde and the Rue de Bourgogne? You are not muddy at all!" said Hortense, looking at her husband's patent leather boots.
That Valerie has turned my head; but, my dear fellow, for her glory is well lost, misfortune well won! She really is! Good Heavens! But I am in a dreadful fix. Advise me. What can I say? How can I excuse myself?" "I! advise you! I don't know," replied Stidmann. "But your wife loves you, I imagine? Well, then, she will believe anything.
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