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In the dining room furnished with an earthenware stove, cane chairs with twisted feet, an old oak sideboard made in the Paris street of Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and containing behind the windows’ panels, a portable stove in ruolz1, champagne flutes, a whole service of white porcelain adorned with gold of which one never used; under a photograph of Mr Thiers, badly lit by a light fitting which reduced the brightness on the tablecloth, Master Ponsart and Mr Lambois folded their serviette, and directed their gaze at the maid who brought the coffee and was silent. When this girl had left after having opened a rosewood liquor cellar, Mr Lambois threw a defiant glance beside the door, then, no doubt reassured, spoke: “Let’s, my dear Ponsart,” …show more content…

I will have them packed and slowly come back here.” “Perfect”, concluded Mr Lambois who moved his chair closer to the door from which he stretched with difficulty his right foot swollen by gout. Master Ponsart smelt a small glass. He held the cognac, whistling between his lips, he puckered same as a rosette. “Famous,” said he, “it is always the old cognac which comes from uncle?” “Yes, we don’t drink like in Paris,” said Mr Lambois in a clear-cut tone. “Indeed!” “But let’s see,” resumed the lawyer, “although my chair is done, we cannot be surrounded by too many precautions, recapitulations, before my departure for the capital, the information that we possess on the account of the young madam.” “We say his antecedents are unknown, that we ignore the incidents of which your son became smitten by her, that she is without any education; - this is clearly implied by the style of her letter writing that she addressed you and to which, according to my opinion, you were right not to respond; - all of this is of little value, in short.” “And that’s it; I can only repeat to you what I have already recounted; when the doctor wrote to me that Jules was very sick, I took the train, arrived in Paris, found the hussy installed at my son’s home as a carer. Jules assured me that this girl in one’s capacity as good was employed at his home. I didn’t

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