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"Well, my dear friend," said Theodose to Cerizet, "you have got your money?" "Yes," returned Cerizet "we have measured our claws, they are the same length, the same strength, and the same sharpness. What next?" "Am I to tell Dutocq that you received, last night, twenty-five thousand francs?" "Oh! my dear friend, not a word, if you love me!" cried Cerizet. "Listen," said Theodose.
The activity of Theodose and Dutocq, Cerizet, Barbet, Metivier, Minard, Phellion, Colleville, and others of the Thuillier circle was extreme. Great and small, they all put their hands to the work. Cadenet procured thirty votes in his section.
"Oh!" said Theodose, with a start, "Mademoiselle Brigitte was saying the other day that she wanted at least as much as that in Celeste's suitor. Moreover, six months hence you'll probably hear that Thuillier has a property worth forty thousand francs a year." "The devil! well, I thought as much. Yes, certainly, he shall be made a member of the municipal council."
Soon no one remained in the salon but Dutocq, Theodose, and the Thuilliers. The flattery administered by Theodose to Flavie seems at the first sight coarsely commonplace, but we must here remark, in the interests of this history, that the barrister was keeping himself as close as possible to these vulgar minds; he was navigating their waters; he spoke their language.
"That's better than a kick on the shin-bone!" On hearing that witticism for the first time Theodose, to whom it was really new, laughed so heartily that the handsome Thuillier was tickled in his vanity as he had never been before. After that, Theodose greeted the same speech with a knowing little smile.
That's in your role. Do you want any money?" added Cerizet, pulling a hundred francs out of his trousers' pocket. "There it is; it won't look amiss." And he laid the pile on the chimney-piece. "And now," said Dutocq, "we had better get out through the bedroom." "Well, good-bye," said Theodose, opening a hidden door which communicated from the study to the bedroom.
"Well, you poor devil," continued Theodose, "don't you see that they want to ruin you? Shall I tell you what you ought to do?
"I shall not let you say another word," replied the commander, profiting by the pause made by Theodose, who watched for the effect of his speech. "My choice is made." "We have had the same idea!" exclaimed Theodose; "men of the same character agree as well as men of the same mind." "In this case I do not believe in that phenomenon," replied Phellion.
Brigitte, we must acknowledge, hesitated, and Theodose then brought forward his last card: "Take the night to think of it," he said, "to-morrow we will talk it over." "My young friend," said Brigitte, looking at the lawyer with an almost loving air, "the first thing to be done is to see the house. Where is it?" "Near the Madeleine. That will be the heart of Paris in ten years.
You forget that marriage is a sacrament." "Your priesthood have turned your head," exclaimed the mathematician, impatiently. "Monsieur Phellion," said Celeste, interrupting him hastily, "enough of this!" It was at this point of the quarrel that Theodose considered it judicious to enter the room.
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