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Updated: June 11, 2025
"If that be all," said Florine, hastily, "they will find you the means of dressing yourself properly." Mother Bunch looked at Florine with increasing surprise. These offers were so much above what she could have hoped, and what indeed was generally earned by needlewomen, that she could hardly credit them. "But," resumed she, with hesitation, "why should any one be so generous to me, mademoiselle?
The underhand enmity of these pretended friends, which Florine would have scented with the innate faculty of a courtesan to get at truth amid a thousand misleading circumstances, was by no means Raoul's greatest danger.
Florine told him as accurately as she could in what room I lay, leaving him to locate the window from the street. From this point the plan was simple enough. Jerome and Florine arrived at Bertrand's by different routes, Florine passing in unconcernedly, and Jerome, clad again as a stupid country knave, walked by the house to discover my outer window.
"My dear daughter," said Mother Sainte-Perpetue, in an affectionate voice, "Florine has told me in what a cruel situation you are placed. Is it true that you are entirely without work?" "Alas! yes, madame." "Call me mother, my dear daughter; that name is dearer to me, and it is the rule of our house. I need not ask you what are your principles?"
"On the contrary, he has been in love with a woman in society for over a year " "A woman in society, he!" cried Florine. "I don't trouble myself about such nonsense as that." "Well, do you want me to make him come and tell you that he will not take you home from here to-night."
Luckily, I have not yet parted with mine. Within an hour, you may know how far to trust M. Rodin. If he betrays the prince, he betrays you also." "What say you?" cried Mdlle. de Cardoville. "Set out instantly with me; we reach the side door; I enter alone, for precaution sake if all is right, I return " "You would have me turn spy?" said Mdlle. de Cardoville, haughtily, interrupting Florine.
Luckily, I have not yet parted with mine. Within an hour, you may know how far to trust M. Rodin. If he betrays the prince, he betrays you also." "What say you?" cried Mdlle. de Cardoville. "Set out instantly with me; we reach the side door; I enter alone, for precaution sake if all is right, I return " "You would have me turn spy?" said Mdlle. de Cardoville, haughtily, interrupting Florine.
When the manager came, he found poor Coralie sobbing and exhausted on her bed; but when he began to say, in Lucien's presence, that Florine knew the part, and that the play must be given that evening, Coralie sprang up at once. "I will play!" she cried, and sank fainting on the floor.
"To do the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some good prey, a celebrity, a man of enough wit to give and take. There's Nathan; will you have him? I know, through a friend of Florine, certain secrets of his which would drive him crazy." "Florine?" said the countess. "Do you mean the actress?"
I have the very man for you," Heloise broke in; "there is the notary that acts for Florine and the Comtesse du Bruel, Leopold Hannequin, a virtuous man that does not know what a lorette is!
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