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Then he dismissed Lemulquinier with a gesture, and motioned to the notary, saying, "Go on." The two words sent a shudder of emotion through the company such as Talma in certain roles produced among his auditors. Balthazar, as he reseated himself, said in a low voice, "To-day I must be a father only." Marguerite hearing the words went up to him and caught his hand and kissed it respectfully.
Lemulquinier came down a moment later, and said his master was following him. Madame Claes's eyes never left the parlor door, but her husband did not appear until the ceremony was over. When at last he entered, Josephine colored and a few tears rolled down her cheeks. "Were you trying to decompose nitrogen?" she said to him with an angelic tenderness which made the spectators quiver.
Madame Claes, far from irritating the wound by remarking on it, continually found remedies for the evil that was done. Of the seven servants who customarily served the family, there now remained only Lemulquinier, Josette the cook, and an old waiting-woman, named Martha, who had never left her mistress since the latter left her convent.
Lemulquinier knew it, but neither the daughters, bound to silence by their mother, nor Josephine herself let Balthazar know the danger of the being he had once so passionately loved. When his heavy step sounded in the gallery as he came to dinner, Madame Claes was happy she was about to see him! and she gathered up her strength for that happiness.
"Hi, the old harlequin!" cried the lads; "the old sorcerer! you are sorcerers! sorcerers! sorcerers!" Lemulquinier sprang to his feet and threatened the crowd with his cane; they all ran to a little distance, picking up stones and mud.
Lemulquinier lent me all his savings the fruit of twenty years' economy for my last experiment, which failed. He has come no doubt, finding that I am once more rich, to insist on having them back. Ah! my angel, give them to him; you owe him your father; he alone consoled me in my troubles, he alone has had faith in me, without him I should have died." "Monsieur! monsieur!" cried Lemulquinier.
Marguerite, half abashed, took Felicie's arm and looked at the young man, who blushed and caught up little Jean to cover his confusion. When all four were in the garden, Felicie and Jean ran to the other side, leaving Marguerite, who, conscious that she was alone with young de Solis, led him to the pyramid of tulips, arranged precisely in the same manner year after year by Lemulquinier.
"Mademoiselle, monsieur told me to put the laboratory in order," said Lemulquinier, facing the two women and looking them down, with a despotic air. "Father," said Marguerite, to Monsieur Claes who was just then descending the stairs, "can you let Mulquinier do an errand for us in town?"
"Ah! is that how it would be?" said Lemulquinier, contemplating his master with admiration. "Now here," continued Balthazar, after a pause, "the combination is subject to the influence of the galvanic battery, which may act " "If monsieur wishes, I can increase its force." "No, no; leave it as it is. Perfect stillness and time are the conditions of crystallization "
On the morrow they started for Flanders. During the journey Marguerite gained some confused light upon the position in which Lemulquinier and her father stood to each other.
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