That is why I did not get home in time to
dress monsieur this morning."
"What am I to do?" cried Canalis, who remembered his proposals to
Modeste the night before, and did not see how he could get out of
them.
"Monsieur knows my attachment to him," said Germain, perceiving that
the poet was quite thrown off his balance; "he will not be surprised
if I give him a word of advice. There is that clerk; try to get the
truth out of him. Perhaps he'll unbutton after a bottle or two of
champagne, or at any rate a third. It would be strange indeed if
monsieur, who will one day be ambassador, as Philoxene has heard
Madame la duchesse say time and time again, couldn't turn a little
notary's clerk inside out."
CHAPTER XXIII
BUTSCHA DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF
At this instant Butscha, the hidden prompter of the fishing part, was
requesting the secretary to say nothing about his trip to Paris, and
not to interfere in any way with what he, Butscha, might do. The dwarf
had already made use of an unfavorable feeling lately roused against
Monsieur Mignon in Havre in consequence of his reserve and his
determination to keep silence as to the amount of his fortune.
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