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Your Madame Taboureau would like to be half as fresh as that fish is! She'd like us to sew it up for her, no doubt!" "A whole fish for ten francs! What'll she want next!" Then came coarse words and foul accusations. Had the servant been the most worthless of her sex she could not have been more bitterly upbraided.
This time Barroux burst into a frank laugh: "No, no, I can't cast Taboureau adrift at this moment people would make too much sport of it a ministry wrecked or saved by a Silviane question!" Then he offered his hand before going off. The Baron pressed it, and for a moment retained it in his own, whilst saying very gravely and with a somewhat pale face: "You do wrong to laugh, my dear Minister.
Then well pleased to think that things were going as he wished them to go, he began to rub his hands, as he often did by way of expressing his satisfaction. "Who is that grey-haired, mournful-looking gentleman on the ministerial bench?" Pierre inquired of Massot. "Why, that's Taboureau, the Minister of Public Instruction, the excellent gentleman who is said to have no prestige.
It would surprise me if Taboureau should recover from it." Just then a low roll of drums announced the arrival of the President and other officials of the Chamber. A door opened, and a little procession passed by amidst an uproar of exclamations and hasty footsteps. Then, standing at his table, the President rang his bell and declared the sitting open.
Oh! they are still very much in your favour at the Fine Arts Office! Only, just fancy, it's that idiot of a minister, that Taboureau,* an old professor from the provinces who knows nothing about our Paris, that has expressly opposed your nomination, saying that as long as he is in office you shall not appear at the Comedie." * Taboureau is previously described as Minister of Public Instruction.
Madame Taboureau, you know, said that she should have nothing more to do with the Quenus if they persisted in bringing themselves into discredit by keeping that Florent with them." "Well, now, I suppose, they will stick to the fortune," remarked Madame Lecoeur. "Oh, no, indeed, my dear. The other one has had his share already." "Really? How do you know that?"
They were talking about you yesterday at Madame Taboureau's. Ah! you have a most devoted friend in her. Madame Taboureau said that you were much too easy-going, and that if she were you she would have put an end to all this long ago." "Madame Taboureau said that?" murmured Lisa thoughtfully. "Yes, indeed she did; and Madame Taboureau is a woman whose advice is worth listening to.
Then, as Monferrand sat down, no longer protesting but waiting, Duvillard, who was again thinking of his passion, full of anger at the recollection of Barroux' refusal, rose in his turn, and exclaimed: "Why, certainly! If the ministry's condemned let it fall! What good can you get out of a ministry which includes such a man as Taboureau!
Oh! they are still very much in your favour at the Fine Arts Office! Only, just fancy, it's that idiot of a minister, that Taboureau,* an old professor from the provinces who knows nothing about our Paris, that has expressly opposed your nomination, saying that as long as he is in office you shall not appear at the Comedie." * Taboureau is previously described as Minister of Public Instruction.
Barroux was chatting in a corner with the Minister of Public Instruction, Senator Taboureau, an old university man with a shrinking, mournful air, who was extremely honest, but totally ignorant of Paris, coming as he did from some far-away provincial faculty.
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