Part 56 (1/2)
”Oh! oh!”
”There is no question that, at the present ”
”Why so?” ”Because we are not on good terreat absurdity, too,” said Malicorne, promptly
”Bah! and if ere to show Mada, do you think we should please Monsieur?”
”Precisely; if we show Madaht to adore us”
”Hureat fools Make haste, therefore, M Manicamp, you who are so able a politician, and ain”
”Tell nan tell you, Malicorne?”
”Tell ; he asked me several questions, and that was all”
”Well, was he less discreet, then, withis passionately in love with Mademoiselle de la Valliere”
”We knew that already,” replied Malicorne, ironically; ”and everybody talks about it loud enough for all to know it; but in the meantime, do what I advise you; speak to M de Guiche, and endeavor to get him to make advances to Monsieur Deuce take it! he owes his royal highness that, at least”
”But we must see De Guiche, then?”
”There does not seereat difficulty in that; try to see him in the same way I tried to see you; wait for hi”
”Yes; but whereabouts does he walk?”
”What a question to ask! Do you not know that he is in love with Madame?”
”So it is said”
”Very well; you will find hi about on the side of the chateau where her apartments are”
”Stay, my dear Malicorne, you were not ”
”Why should I be mistaken? Have you ever noticed that I a a mistake? Come, we only need to understand each other Are you in want of money?”
”Ah!” exclaimed Manicamp, mournfully
”Well, I want my appointment Let Malicorne have the appointreater difficulty in the way than that”
”Very well; in that case make yourself easy I will do my best”
”Do”
De Guiche approached, Malicorne stepped aside, and Manicahtful and melancholy ”Tellto find,” said Manicamp ”I have an excellent one to match yours, particularly if yours ends in a a friend, he took him by the ar very different fro for?”
”You will help me to find what I am in search of,” continued the comte: ”you who are such an idle fellow, in other words, a etting enuity ready, then, my dear comte”
”This is the state of the case, then: I wish to approach a particular house, where I have soet near the house, then,” said Manicaood; but in this house dwells a husband who happens to be jealous”
”Is heCerberus?”
”Not more, but quite as uardian of the infernal regions had? Do not shrug your shoulders, my dear comte: I put the question to you with an excellent reason, since poets pretend that, in order to soften Monsieur Cerberus, the visitorwith him-a cake, for instance Therefore, I, who view the ht of reality, I say: one cake is very little for three et three cakes”
”Manicaet such advice as that froet better advice,” said Manicamp, with a coed to adopt a more precise formula than you have used towards me”
”If Raoul were here,” said De Guiche, ”he would be sure to understand me”
”So I think, particularly if you said to him: 'I should very much like to see Madame a little nearer, but I fear Monsieur, because he is jealous'”
”Manica to overwhelm his tormentor by a look, who did not, however, appear to be in the slightest degree disturbed by it
”What is the matter now, my dear comte?” inquired Manicamp
”What! is it thus you blaspheme the most sacred of nahest naely hest nadom I merely answered you in reference to the subject of a jealous husband, whose name you did not tell me, and who, as a matter of course, has a wife I therefore replied to you, in order to see Madaet a little more intimate with Monsieur”
”Double-dealer that you are,” said the co else”
”Very good; what then?”
”Now,” added Manica the duchess-or the Duke-; very well, I shall say: Let us get into the house in some way or other, for that is a tactic which cannot in any case be unfavorable to your love affair”