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Cerizet had only suggested the affair of the house to Theodose after making sure that among the three, Madame Poiret, Cadenet, and himself, it was impossible to raise the full sum of one hundred thousand francs. The "lender by the little week" was thus in perfect safety in his den, where he could even, if necessity came, appeal to the law.
"Felix," said old Phellion, coming heavily to the rescue of his son, and catching a distressed look on the pale face of Madame Thuillier, "Felix separates religion into two categories; he considers it from the human point of view and the divine point of view, tradition and reason." "That is heresy, monsieur," replied Theodose. "Religion is one; it requires, above all things, faith."
Now, if you think the right moment has come, I should be glad if you would give me some better light on the mission you are doing me the honor to place in my hands." "You spoke just now," replied du Portail, "of the cousin of Theodose, Mademoiselle Lydie de la Peyrade.
Monsieur Dutocq is in the office of the justice-of-peace; in other words, he couldn't be easily defeated in such a matter." "The debt to Monsieur Dutocq you shall buy off yourself," replied du Portail. "Make arrangements with him to that effect. Should Theodose prove reluctant to carry out my plans, those notes may become a useful weapon in our hands.
"Fear nothing," replied Brigitte. From that day forth Thuillier became a dear, good friend. "My dear, good friend," was the name given to him by Theodose, with voice inflections of varieties of tenderness which astonished Flavie. But "little aunt," a name that flattered Brigitte deeply, was only given in family secrecy, and occasionally before Flavie.
Good courage, old fellow!" he added, holding out his hand to Theodose, and making the grasp a test of faithfulness. The Provencal gave Cerizet his right hand, pressing the other's hand warmly: "My good fellow," he said, "be very sure that in whatever position I may find myself I shall never forget that from which you have drawn me by putting me in the saddle here.
He entered Flavie's room; she was alone, and when she saw Theodose she fancied her last hour had come. "What is the matter?" she cried. "I I " he said. "Do you love me, Flavie?" "Oh! how can you doubt it?" "Do you love me absolutely? if I were criminal, even?" "Has he murdered some one?" she thought, replying to his question by a nod.
"If you are able to get ten thousand francs out of your bourgeois you can surely get fifteen," said Cerizet. "For thirty thousand I'm your man. Frankness for frankness, you know." "You ask the impossible," replied Theodose. "At this very moment, if you had to do with Claparon instead of with me, your fifteen thousand would be lost, for Thuillier is to-day the owner of that house."
"Well, truly, my dear Theodose," said Thuillier, with feeling, "I should never have thought that you would choose the hour of adversity to come and put your pistol at our throats and make me the object of your sneers and innuendoes." "Well done!" said la Peyrade; "now it is the hour of adversity!
"Well, I will undertake that you shall see a piece of property and estimate yourself its probable revenue, which I can make Thuillier the owner of for fifty thousand francs down." "Oh! if you can make us obtain that!" cried Brigitte, worked up to the highest excitement by the spur of her natural cupidity. "Go on, my dear Monsieur Theodose, and " She stopped short. "Well, mademoiselle?"
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