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Updated: June 6, 2025
If Parisians know these creations peculiar to their soil, foreigners have no suspicion of their existence; and Mere Cardinal technologically speaking, of course, deserved all the interest she excited in Theodose. So many women of her species may be met with in the streets that the passers-by give them no more attention than they give to the three thousand pictures of the Salon.
Theodose smiled to himself at the thought of the battle which was now to take place between the father and the citizen. "Do not bind yourself to your present ideas, I entreat you," he said, "for this matter concerns the happiness of your dear Felix."
Felix left the house with Theodose and Flavie, whose arm the barrister pressed to let her know he would explain in the carriage the apparent dementia of the young professor. An hour later, Madame Colleville and Celeste, Colleville and Theodose were entering the Thuilliers' apartment to dine there. Theodose and Flavie took Thuillier into the garden, where the former said to him:
"But," said Thuillier, "our deed of partnership seems to me to settle " " that by a paltry forfeit of five thousand francs, as stated in Article 14," interrupted Theodose, "you can put me, when you choose, out of doors. No, I thank you! After my experience to-day, I want some better security than that." At this moment Cerizet with a lively and all-conquering air, entered the room.
He began this at first by help of Dutocq, who shared the profits; but, at the present moment this man of many legal crimes, now the banker of fishwives, the money-lender of costermongers, was the gnawing rodent of the whole faubourg. "Well," said Cerizet as Dutocq opened his door, "Theodose has just come in; let us go to his room."
She understood nothing of all this, but she fell upon the sofa, exhausted by the spectacle. Theodose flung himself at her feet. "Forgive me! forgive me!" he said. "But what is the matter? what is it?" she asked again. "They are trying to destroy me. Oh! promise to give me Celeste, and you shall see what a glorious life I will make you share.
In telling this secret Theodose, though alarmed as he did so, had a two-fold purpose: first, to test Thuillier; and next, to avert the consequences of a fatal blow which might be dealt to him any day in a secret and sinister struggle he had long foreseen. Two words will explain his horrible position.
"Come and dress me; I shall make an end of this; I know your father; he has put his foot down now. To carry out the plan that pious young man, Theodose, suggested, I want your help; hold yourself ready to give it, my daughter." At this moment, Genevieve came in and gave a letter to Monsieur Phellion.
But soon after he was installed in the little apartment on the third floor, with the furniture rigorously required by all members of his noble profession, for the guild of barristers admits no brother unless he has a suitable study, a legal library, and can thus, as it were, verify his claims, Theodose de la Peyrade began to practise as a barrister before the Royal Court of Paris.
Another imprudence had been to urge the Thuilliers to leave their old home in the Latin quarter. At this period, when his power and credit had reached their apogee, Theodose considered his marriage a settled thing; and he now felt an almost childish haste to spring into the sphere of elegance which seemed henceforth to be his future.
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