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"My poor child, what is the matter now?" said M. Baleinier, in a soft, wheedling tone, before he left the window where he was standing with Adrienne. "Whatever happens, count upon me!" And the physician went to seat himself between M. d'Aigrigny and M. Tripeaud. At her aunt's insolent address, Mdlle. de Cardoville had proudly lined her head.
"What you say there is true, but it would be a devil of a pull that would make an honest man out of my old master, Baron Tripeaud, who made me what I am an out-and-out rip." "Hardy's workmen are coming; you are their comrade, and have no interest in deceiving them. They will believe you. Join with me in persuading them " "To what?"
"These facts are therefore admitted," said Abbe d'Aigrigny, turning towards the doctor and the baron. "These facts are completely established," said M. Tripeaud, in a pompous voice. "Will you tell me, aunt," asked Adrienne, "what is the good of this long preamble?" "This long preamble, madame," resumed the princess with dignity, "exposes the past in order to justify the future."
Any other supposition would be in the highest degree improbable. This explains itself." "Your indulgence deceives you, M. Baleinier," answered the princess, dryly. "We knew the sort of thieves," said Tripeaud; "they are generally young men, handsome, and very rich." "You are wrong, sir," resumed Madame de Saint-Dizier. "Mademoiselle does not raise her views so high.
On the strength of his well-filled safe, mounted on his right of the candidate, Baron Tripeaud insults the poverty and political disfranchisement of the officer, who, after forty years of wars and hard service, is just able to live on a scanty pension Of the magistrate, who has consumed his strength in the discharge of stern and sad duties, and who is not better remunerated in his litter days Of the learned man who has made his country illustrious by useful labors; or the professor who has initiated entire generations in the various branches of human knowledge Of the modest and virtuous country curate, the pure representative of the gospel, in its charitable, fraternal, and democratic tendencies, etc.
"The big blaster did it all," said another; "the true Wolves wash their hands of him. We shall soon settle his account." "We may fight every day but we ought to esteem each other." Some of these wretches, still further excited by the little man with the ferret's face, a secret emissary of Baron Tripeaud, now rushed in a mass towards the workshops of M. Hardy. Then began a lamentable devastation.
It is really quite life like; you have only to listen. "'The Baron Tripeaud.
After nodding graciously to the doctor, she passed Baron Tripeaud by without looking at him, and saluted the princess with stately obeisance, in the most fashionable style.
M. Tripeaud and D'Aigrigny had just now given their full consent to the words of the princess. Adrienne began to perceive that something very serious was in contemplation, and her gayety was at once replaced by an air of bitter irony and offended independence.
"The princess acted very wisely," said Tripeaud, bowing; "it is well that the authorities should be informed of such matters." Adrienne, too much interested in the fate of the workman to think of answering Tripeaud or the princess, listened in silence, and strove to conceal her uneasiness.
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