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Phellion, Colleville, and Thuillier met their old comrade, Minard, at election, and an intimacy followed; all the closer with the Thuilliers and Collevilles because Madame Minard seemed enchanted to make an acquaintance for her daughter in Celeste Colleville.
He rose to leave the room. "One moment, monsieur," said Brigitte, barring his way; "there is one matter which I do not consider settled; and now that we are no longer to have interests in common, I should not be sorry if you would be so good as to tell me what has become of a sum of ten thousand francs which Thuillier gave you to bribe those rascally government offices in order to get the cross we have never got."
"So," continued Lousteau, "all parliamentary ambitions will take the field, and, if I am well informed, Monsieur Thuillier, already member of the Council-general, intends to present himself as candidate for election in the 12th arrondissement." "Yes," said la Peyrade, "that is likely to be his intention."
"Why should Mademoiselle Thuillier work in this way?" said Minard to Metivier. "She'd be a good match for you," he added. "I? oh, no," replied Metivier. "I shall do better by marrying a cousin; my uncle Metivier has given me the succession to his business; he has a hundred thousand francs a year and only two daughters."
"Pooh!" said Thuillier, the free-thinker, "do you suppose I give in to that superstition?"
That was only a mirage, by help of which Thuillier was enticed out of Paris long enough for la Peyrade to deal his blow, a service rendered to the government on the one hand, but also a precious vengeance for the many humiliations he had undergone.
Thuillier had not escaped the action of the administrative rolling-pin which thins the mind as it spreads it out. Exhausted by irksome toil, as much as by his life of gallantry, the ex-sub-director had well-nigh lost all his faculties by the time he came to live in the rue Saint-Dominique.
After that, you will certainly be deputy from the arrondissement when the Chamber is re-elected, which must surely be before long. The votes that elect you to the municipal council will stand by you in the election for deputy, trust me for that." "But how will you manage all this?" cried Thuillier, fascinated.
"That's not bad," said du Portail; "but there's another and even more conclusive use to be made of the discovery." "Tell me, master; I'm listening," said Cerizet. "Thuillier has not yet been able, has he, to explain to himself the reason of the seizure of the pamphlet?" "Yes, he has," replied Cerizet.
"Well, that's something; but your error consists in calculating on the yearly cost. When do the elections take place?" "In two months," said Thuillier. "Very good; two months will cost you thirty thousand francs, even supposing the paper had no subscribers." "True," said Thuillier, "the expense is certainly less than I thought at first. But does a newspaper really seem to you essential?"
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