Parisians in the Country

took himself to the life-insurance company, where he learned the intricacies of financial diplomacy. His aptitude and his memory were prod

article Paris, and seduced him, it was said, with large offers, to take their commissions once more. The king of tr

," he said in a hackney-

and Gaudissart had found his tyrant in Jenny. He was bringing her home at eleven o'clock fro

ndia shawls imported by the suite of the Russian ambassador, and her silver plate and her Russian prince,-who to my mind is nothing bu

Monster of a man! Do you dare to talk to me of your childr

y Jenny! That's only a figur

business

talk all the time you'll

on my word, you t

profession, when travellers have caught, let us suppose, ten subscribers to the 'Children's Journal,' they say, 'I've got ten Chil

r you. Oh! if one only knew what one puts one's foot into when we love a man, on my word of honor we would let you alone to take

eported to be privately married to the illustrious Gaudissart, a rumor which that individual did not deny. To maintain her supremacy, Jenny kept him to the performance of innumerable small a

ish my chamber?" she asked, throwing off

sous for eac

expect to make me rich? Perhaps you are like th

ren have never had a newspaper to themselves before. But what a fool I

me, Gaudissart, if I'm such

obe,' the 'Movement,' the 'Children,' the insurance business, and some of my old articles Paris; instead

art, and do it righ

income, and is going to make himself a peer of France. When one thinks of that little Popinot,-ah, mon Dieu! I forgot to tell you that Monsieur Popinot was named minister of commerce

seful or noxious, if it should be encouraged or put down, taxed or free. These are serious questions. I feel that I do not waste the time, always precious, of this Chamber by examining this article-the Press-and explaining to you its qualities. We are on the verge of an abyss. Undoubtedly the laws have not the nap which they ought to have-Hein?" he said, looking at J

ou

of the Council. Suppose they send me as ambassador to London? I tell you I'd nonplus those English! No man ever got the better of Gaudissart, the illustrious Gaudissart, and nobody ever will. Yes, I say it! no one ever outwitt

nd your newspapers. I'll bet you won't get furth

will y

sha

article Paris and the hat business. But as for

re Jenny, looked at her proudly, one hand in his waistcoat, hi

re! what have you be

, ruddy cheeks, and regular features of the type which sculptors of all lands adopt as a model for statues of Abundance, Law, Force, Commerce, and the like. His

m, antagonism, Fourierism, criticism, heroic enterprise, or woman's freedom? I'

or, you are going

t YOU," he replied, fling

ter spending forty-five days in beating up the country between Paris and Blois, he remained two weeks at the latter place to write up his correspondence and make short visits to the various market towns of the department. The night before he left Blois for

u will lose your w

rious has his star, b

ife insurance has don

wo millions. But as

finitely harder and mi

aris keeps up its own

With all my well-kno

rks. I got off one h

eans. I am sure I don

they return them to t

urnal-the devil! that

how one has to warbl

une. I have only made

s for the whole trip

n rogues! they won't

e your opinions, and

ting thing must be ove

subscribe. Not a bit

gh to grow ten cabba

, the fellow begins t

nues, indemnities,-a

me and breath on pa

he 'Movement' does no

told them so. I am so

litical

that's another breed

trines to people you

,-why, they think yo

ain for me to tell t

ty, for self-interest

othing can be lost; th

hat woman is a sla

hould be made to trium

rational co-ordinatio

reverberation of my s

upon them with such i

as if I wanted to ste

t they fools? geese?

ors, 'You are too adva

a few results; the pr

de a hundred 'Glob

k-headedness of thes

I had to make them s

t know how the globit

themselves, will eve

hey can make the worl

head and prophesy to

. There was one farme

use of its name. I Gl

projecting forehead;

s are id

oh! ah! as to the '

and Blois. Jolly busi

st show a little vi

from the child: natura

s gown and cries for

amma can't let her br

ncs, the subscription

n excellent thing, me

n dolls and sugar-pl

ies of c

rel here at the ta

nions. I was unsuspic

ray hat who was readin

my rostrum eloquen

m; this triumph will

nts.' So I went to

didn't lead him along

I launched my four-ho

all the rest of the c

a man who had July a

o nibble at a 'Movemen

nluckily let fall t

have seen my gray

yhow), who got the bi

t on my grand air-you

u are remarkably aggr

o give you satisfacti

of a family,' he re

' I exclaimed; 'my d

elve years old?' 'Jus

al" is the very thing

th, double columns, ed

ood paper, engravings

actual colored drawin

y broadside 'feeling

ubscription instead

who can get out of t

amard to the big Bulo

im the

Amboise. I shall do u

t from Tours, where

of that colorless reg

and speculative poin

they shall be topple

ed, I

ve me always; be fait

of the attributes of

ou on the

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