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Monsieur Rabourdin is sacrificed by the very persons who employed him. Bixiou says so. We were all to be turned out, except Sebastien and Phellion." Thuillier. "To the last word." Thuillier. "He may rush as much as he pleases to his Duc de Rhetore and Duc de Maufrigneuse, but Colleville is to be our under-head-clerk, that's certain." Phellion.
A few days before his mother's death, when he was just sixteen, he left the Lycee Napoleon to enter as supernumerary a government office, where an unknown protector had provided him with a place. At twenty-two years of age Rabourdin became under-head-clerk; at twenty-five, head-clerk, or, as it was termed, head of the bureau.
"If you would kindly employ your influence to get me placed in your division, taking Bixiou as head of the bureau and me as under-head-clerk, you will secure the future of two men who are ready to do anything for your advancement." "Are you making fun of us, monsieur?" asked Saillard, staring at him stupidly. "Far be it from me to do that," said Dutocq.
Then came a splendid dinner, lasting at least five hours, to which were invited the Abbe Gaudron, Falleix, Rabourdin, Monsieur Godard, under-head-clerk to Monsieur Baudoyer, Monsieur Bataille, captain of the company of the National Guard to which Saillard and his son-in-law belonged. Monsieur Cardot, who was invariably asked, did as Rabourdin did, namely, accepted one invitation out of six.
Though Sebastien did his work at the office for the small compensation we have mentioned, du Bruel was in the habit of coming there to advertise the fact that he was the under-head-clerk and to draw his salary.
Hey, how well the thing has been managed! Du Bruel, just keep your eye on the consequences. Rabourdin would be a mean-spirited creature to stay under Baudoyer; he will send in his registration, and that will give us two places. You can be head of the bureau and take me for under-head-clerk. We will make vaudevilles together, and I'll fag at your work in the office." Poor Rabourdin!
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?
Dutocq was intimate with Godard, under-head-clerk to Baudoyer, and the high esteem in which Dutocq held Baudoyer was the original cause of his acquaintance with Godard; not that Dutocq was sincere even in this; but by praising Baudoyer and saying nothing of Rabourdin he satisfied his hatred after the fashion of little minds.
You are a curious kind of innocent still, my dear colleague." Dutocq. "Well, you needn't make the lithograph till success is proved." Bixiou. "Why don't you come out and tell me the whole truth?" Dutocq. Colleville will be under-head-clerk at the very least. Minard may have my place as chief clerk why not? he is quite as dull as I am.
Many end the weary round by marrying milliners, or old women, sometimes, however, young ones who are charmed with their handsome persons, and with whom they set up a romance illustrated with stupid love letters, which, nevertheless, seem to answer their purpose. Bixiou wanted either Godard's or du Bruel's place as under-head-clerk, but his conduct interfered with his promotion.
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