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Why had Ramel spoken to him of woman? This half-disquieting thought speedily left Sulpice, attracted as he was by the joyous movement, the delight of the eyes which presented itself to his view. In thus journeying to the Bois, he felt a delightful emotion of solitude and forgetfulness. He gradually recovered his self-possession and became himself once more.
Ramel had lighted his pipe, and half-hidden by the bluish wreaths of smoke, chatted away, quite happy on his side to give himself up to the revelation of the secret of his heart without the least bitterness, and like an elder brother, advised this man, who was still young and whom he had compared formerly to one of those too fine pieces of porcelain that the least shock would crack.
Ramel," he said, extending his hand to the old journalist, "if your feelings prompt you, I should like to show you some canvases." "I go out so rarely," said Ramel. "Huron!" said the painter. "Puritan!" said Marianne, also offering her hand to Denis Ramel.
"Smoke against smoke," thought Ramel, with his pipe between his teeth. "And it would be just as well for one to struggle a lost unity against folly, as for a single person to desire to create as much smoke as all these locomotives together!" Ramel appeared to be delighted to see Vaudrey, whose name the housekeeper murdered by announcing him as Monsieur Vaugrey.
The selection that very morning, of Warcolier as Under Secretary of State in a Republican administration, a man who had played charades at Compiègne, had thrown him into a state of angry excitement. Ramel, however, burst into laughter. "Ah, nonsense! You will see many other such! Why, governments always do favors to their enemies when their opponents pretend to lower their colors!
If I had been rich or if I only had enough to live on, I should have passed my life in travelling. And in the end, I shall have lived between Montmartre and Batignolles: a tortoise dreaming that he is a swallow " "Ramel, my dear fellow," said the minister, "would you wish me to give you a mission where you could go and study whatever seemed good to you?" "With my rheumatism?
These were, Merlin de Douai, the minister of justice; Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs; and Ramel, minister of finance. On the other hand they desired to retain Petiet as minister of war, Benesech as minister of the interior, and Cochon de Lapparent as minister of police. The legislative body, in default of directorial power, wished to make sure of the ministry.
"You and my old friend Ramel," answered Sulpice, "are the two most original men that I know." "With this difference however, Ramel is a Puritan, an ancient, a man of marble, and I am a boulevardier and a skeptic. He is a man of bronze your Ramel! And your friend Lissac of simili-bronze! The proof of it is that I have been seeking you for half the evening to ask you to do me a favor."
"But at any rate," and here he extended his hand to Ramel, "you will see me this evening?" "Certainly." "And you still live at ?" "Rue Boursault, Boulevard des Batignolles." "Till then, my dear Ramel! If occasion require, you will not refuse to give me your advice?" "Nor my devotion. But without office, remember without office," said Ramel, still smiling.
"Again!" said Vaudrey, who felt that he was pursued by this word. After all, what did Thibaudier matter to him, or the deputation, the election or politics? Denis Ramel had sounded its depths in his grave in the cemetery of Saint-Ouen. "Let us drop Thibaudier. By the way," said Jéliotte, "I saw your wife at Grenoble." Vaudrey grew pale. He again repeated: "Ah!" "She is greatly changed.
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