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Besides, it was necessary to get rid of the young substitute, just as the Minards had previously ruined the hopes of Monsieur Godeschal. To complete this portrait of the poor man's lawyer we must here relate the circumstances of his first arrival at the Thuilliers'. Theodose came to lodge in Mademoiselle Thuillier's house toward the close of the year 1837.
To enlarge the horizon of the Thuilliers was for la Peyrade to run the chance of creating competition for the confidence and admiration of which he had been till then the exclusive object.
Delighted to have in their house a tenant so worthy and so charitable, the Thuilliers wished to attract him to their salon, and they questioned Dutocq about him. The mayor's clerk replied as the envious reply; while doing justice to the young man he dwelt on his remarkable avarice, which might, however, be the effect of poverty. "I have had other information about him.
He had therefore furthered the inducements of the countess, feeling that he thus sent the Thuilliers before him to make his bed in the splendid apartment he intended to share with them. By thus removing them from their old home he saw another advantage, that of withdrawing Celeste from daily intercourse with a rival who seemed to him dangerous.
"I suppose," said Cerizet, spitefully, "the Thuilliers have grown cold since the seizure of the pamphlet." "The Thuilliers are ungrateful people; I have broken with them," replied la Peyrade. "Rupture or dismissal," said Cerizet, "their door is shut against you; and from what Dutocq tells me, I judge that Brigitte is handling you without gloves.
Vinet junior appeared charmed to obtain the right to visit the Thuilliers on Sundays. Great dowries make men commit great and unbecoming follies without reserve or decency in these days.
"There is something behind all this," said Desroches in an undertone to Godeschal, as la Peyrade followed Sauvaignou into the clerk's office. "The Thuilliers get a splendid piece of property for next to nothing," replied Godeschal; "that's all." "La Peyrade and Cerizet look to me like two divers who are fighting under water," replied Desroches.
The presence of the man whom he had just declared immortal did not deter Minard, when the occasion was thus made for him, from plunging eagerly into one of the most precious joys of bourgeois existence, namely, the retailing of gossip. "Just imagine!" he began; "last night at the Thuilliers' the most extraordinary things took place, one after another."
Read it aloud; it will cheer me up." Before la Peyrade began to read, Corentin added: "I ought to tell you that the report is from a man called Henri, whom Madame Komorn introduced as man-servant at the Thuilliers'; you probably remember him." "So!" said la Peyrade, "servants placed in families! is that one of your methods?"
"But what can be done to prevent it?" asked Phellion. "Fight, monsieur; come this evening in force to the Thuilliers'; induce Monsieur Felix to accompany you; lecture him until he promises to be a little more flexible in his philosophical opinions. Paris, said Henri IV., is surely worth a mass.
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