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I didn't know." Fleury. "Are you blind?" Sebastien. "I don't like to look at what I ought not to see." Vimeux. "The devil! well, you looked at Madame Rabourdin enough, any how; a charming woman." Fleury. "Pooh! thin as a rail. I saw her in the Tuileries, and I much prefer Percilliee, the ballet-mistress, Castaing's victim." Phellion.
At the moment of starting for Jerusalem, Robert, duke of Normandy, whom thou feignest to regard as thy father, left all his heritage to Alain, my father and his cousin: but thou and thy accomplices slew my father with poison at Vimeux, in Normandy.
Chazelle's home, which was tyrannized over by a wife, furnished a subject of endless ridicule to Paulmier; whereas Paulmier, a bachelor, often half-starved like Vimeux, with ragged clothes and half-concealed penury was a fruitful source of ridicule to Chazelle.
"I am too much Colleville's friend not to beg you, Monsieur Fleury, to speak respectfully of his wife." Phellion. "A defenceless woman should never be made the subject of conversation here " Vimeux. "All the more because the charming Madame Colleville won't invite Fleury to her house. He backbites her in revenge." Fleury.
There was La Loiseau, whose habits were so abominably filthy that her nurslings rotted as on a manure heap; there was La Vimeux, who never purchased a drop of milk, but picked up all the village crusts and made bran porridge for her charges as if they had been pigs; there was La Gavette too, who, being always in the fields, left her nurslings in the charge of a paralytic old man, who sometimes let them fall into the fire; and there was La Cauchois, who, having nobody to watch the babes, contented herself with tying them in their cradles, leaving them in the company of fowls which came in bands to peck at their eyes.
"Say at once that he lies; in his mouth truth itself turns to corrosion." Phellion. "Your language is unparliamentary and lacks the courtesy and consideration which are due to a colleague." Vimeux. "It seems to me that if what he says is false, the proper name for it is calumny, defamation of character; and such a slanderer deserves the thrashing."
He knew the science of writing quite as well as Vimeux. At the office he kept in the background, doing his allotted task with the collected air of a man who thinks and suffers. His white eyelashes and lack of eyebrows induced the relentless Bixiou to name him "the white rabbit."
Not you, certainly, for you will be made under-head-clerk and du Bruel head of the bureau. Monsieur Baudoyer gets the division." Fleury. "I'll bet a hundred francs that Baudoyer will never be head of the division." Vimeux. "I'll join in the bet; will you, Monsieur Poiret?" Poiret. "I retire in January." Bixiou. "Is it possible? are we to lose the sight of those shoe-ties?
Vimeux informed him that one day his hat his, Vimeux's had stained his forehead black, and that hat-makers were in the habit of using drugs. After that Poiret paid many visits to Monsieur Tournan to inquire into his methods of manufacture.
The wag of the ministry, Bixiou, sent round a paper, headed by a caricature of his victim on a pasteboard horse, asking for subscriptions to buy him a live charger. Monsieur Baudoyer was down for a bale of hay taken from his own forage allowance, and each of the clerks wrote his little epigram; Vimeux himself, good-natured fellow that he was, subscribed under the name of "Miss Fairfax."
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