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"Come, let us gather round the festive board," said he joyously. "This is breakfast and dinner in one. Rose, be seated; and you, my dear friend, will surely share with us the repast we owe to you?" With many protestations of regret, however, Daddy Tantaine pleaded an important engagement at the other end of Paris.
"Then," went on Tantaine, "I will take my leave. Remember, that as you fulfil your engagement, so we will keep to ours." He had laid his hand on the handle of the door, when the Count said, "Another word, if you please. I can answer for myself and Madame de Mussidan, but how about my daughter?" Tantaine's face changed. "What do you mean?" asked he.
It would clearly prove that Tantaine was no friend of mine, not even an acquaintance, and they would have laughed me to scorn had I declared that the evening before he came into my room and made me a present of five hundred francs." "I think that I can solve the riddle," remarked Mascarin. "I know the old fellow so well." Paul listened with breathless eagerness.
Suppose I saw Polyte steal a couple of pairs of boots from a trotter-case seller's stall " Polyte interrupted the narrator, protesting so strongly that he would not commit such an act, that Tantaine perceived at once that some such trifling act of larceny weighed heavily on his conscience. "You needn't kick up such a row," returned Toto. "I am only just putting it as a thing that might happen.
"What did you say?" asked he. "Nothing, sir; I was too horror-stricken; the man Loupins came up, and both he and his wife scowled at me threateningly. After a short pause, they asserted that they were perfectly sure that Rose and I had robbed M. Tantaine." "But did you not deny this monstrous charge?" "I was utterly bewildered, for I saw that every circumstance was against me.
Tantaine believed that Sabine was more culpable than she really had been, for the idea of pure and honorable love had never entered his brain. By this time Tantaine was in the Champs Elysees, and stared anxiously around. "If my Toto makes no mistake," muttered he, "surely my order was plain enough."
No one has ever been here except you. Did you not hear what the old woman said? She told you that you are a musician, a self-made one, and while waiting until your talents are appreciated, you give lessons in music." "And to whom do I give them?" Tantaine took three visiting cards from a china ornament on the mantelshelf.
"As you may believe," said he, "I made every inquiry into the past as well as the present of the Duke, and also tried to discover who was the mother of the child, but in this I entirely failed." "What! not with all your means?" cried Tantaine, with a sneer. "Laugh at me as much as you like; but out of the thirty servants in the Champdoce establishment, not one has been there more than ten years.
Once I went into a money-changer's shop and asked them just to let me feel one, and they said, 'Get out sharp." "Is that all?" demanded Tantaine. "No; I have kept the best bit for a finish. I want to tell you that there are others on the lookout after Caroline." Toto had no reason this time to grumble at the effect he had produced, for the old man gave such a jump that his hat fell off.
"Pooh! pooh!" answered Toto, "if you want to make money in this business, you must keep your eyes about you. Our customers don't come to you, but there is nothing to prevent you going to them. You can hunt until you find them." "And where are you to hunt, if you please?" "Ah, that's tellings." A long silence ensued, during which Tantaine was half tempted to come forward.
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