Volume V Part 10 (1/2)
The rascal had never talked in this style before I thought it best to conceal er, and went up to my brother as in a corner of the roo Marcoline at the theatre yesterday?”
”I went to remind her of her duty, and to warn her that I would not be her complaisant lover”
”You have insulted me and her too, fool that you are! You owe all to Marcoline, for if it had not been for her, I should never have given you a second glance; and yet you behave in this disgraceful manner”
”I have ruined ain What right have you to take her froht of luck, and the right of the strongest! How is it that she is happy with me, and does not wish to leave me?”
”You have dazzled her”
”Another reason is that with you she was dying of er”
”Yes, but the end of it will be that you will abandon her as you have done with many others, whereas I should have ade, you seeet that you are a priest I do not propose to part with her, but if I do I will send her away rich”
”Well, well, do as you please; but still I have the right to speak to her whenever I like”
”I have forbidden you to do so, and you may trust me when I tell you that you have spoken to her for the last ti I went out and called on an advocate I asked hin abbe, as indebted to h I had no proof of the debt
”You can do so, as he is a foreigner, but you will have to pay caution-money You can have him put under arrest at his inn, and you can make hi Is the sue one?”
”Twelve louis”
”You istrate and deposit twelve louis, and from that moment you will be able to have hi?”
”In the same hotel as I aet him to the 'Ste Baume,' and put him under arrest
Here are the twelve louis caution-istrate's order, and ill ain to-morrow”
”Give me his name, and yours also”
I returned in haste to the ”Treize Cantons,” and o out
”Followto take you to Marcoline, and you shall have an explanation in her presence”
”With pleasure”
He got into a carriage with me, and I told the coachot there, I told hi to fetch Marcoline, and that I would return with her in a ain, and drove to the advocate, who gave the order for arrest to a policeman, as to execute it I then returned to the ”Treize Cantons” and put his belongings into a trunk, and had them transported to his new abode
I found hi to the astonished host, who could not understand what it was all about I told the landlord the mythical history of the abbe debt toto fear with regard to the bill, as I would take care that he should be well paid
I then began et ready to leave Marseilles the next day, and that I would pay for his journey to Paris; but that if he did not like to do so, I should leave him to his fate, and in three days he would be expelled froo to Paris