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Updated: June 6, 2025
"The right of redemption doesn't expire for another week. I have attended to your affairs, but mine have gone terribly to pieces." "My dear child, you have friends," cried Brigitte; "if you should happen to want five hundred francs or so, you will always find them here." Theodose exchanged a smile with Thuillier, who hastened to carry him off, saying:
Theodose de la Peyrade. Two hours later a servant, dressed in what was evidently the first step towards a livery, which the Thuilliers did not as yet venture to risk, the "male domestic," whom Minard had mentioned to the Phellions, arrived at la Peyrade's lodgings with the following note: Come to-night, without fail. We will talk over the whole affair with Brigitte.
The next morning, at daybreak, Theodose went to the office of the banker of the poor, to see the effect produced upon his enemy by the punctual payment of the night before, and to make another effort to get rid of his hornet. He found Cerizet standing up, in conference with a woman, and he received an imperative sign to keep at a distance and not to interrupt the interview.
"Faith! my dear boy, you've done our business so well that I'll leave you to manage that of letting the house." "Don't abdicate, dear aunt," replied Theodose. "God keep me from ever taking a step without you! You are the good genius of this family; I think only of the day when Thuillier will take his seat in the Chamber.
Theodose, certain now of his supremacy, holding Thuillier fast by his past services and by the literary work in which they were both engaged, admired by Brigitte for his modesty and discretion, for never had he made the slightest allusion to his own poverty or uttered one word about money, Theodose began to assume an air that was rather less servile than it had been.
"But a doctor is not an administrator," replied Theodose; "and, besides, I have come to ask your vote for a man to whom your dearest interests require that you should sacrifice a predilection, which, after all, is quite unimportant to the public welfare."
While getting into bed, Theodose said to himself: "The wife is on my side; the husband can't endure me; they are now quarrelling; and I shall get the better of it, for she does what she likes with that man." The lawyer was mistaken in one thing: there was no dispute whatever, and Colleville was sleeping peacefully beside his dear little Flavie, while she was saying to herself:
Theodose therefore clung to this rope, resolving to do battle, on so poor a base of operations, with the vanity of a fool, which, according to individual character, is either granite or sand. On reflection, Theodose was inclined to be content with the prospect. On the evening before the right of redemption expired, Claparon and Cerizet proceeded to manipulate the notary in the following manner.
"To-morrow, then, about mid-day," responded Brigitte, holding out her hand to Theodose that he might shake it, but instead of that he laid upon it the most respectful and the most tender kiss that Brigitte had ever in her life received. "Adieu, my child," she said, as he reached the door. She rang the bell hurriedly and when the servant came:
An upright Erard piano, placed between the two windows and opposite to the fireplace, showed the constant occupation of a proficient. "Am I so unfortunate as to put you to flight?" said Theodose, smiling in a kindly way at the mother and daughter. "You have a delightful retreat here," he continued.
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