[The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre (fils) Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Son of Clemenceau CHAPTER XII 5/19
Did the master suggest it ?" "Not the master altogether, madame, but his partner." "Eh! do you mean Antonino? Monsieur had already lifted him up to be his associate, his confidant, his friend, to the exclusion of his lawful friend and confidant, his wife--and now, does he make him his partner ?" "No, madame; though he has a good fat share in the enterprise.
It is M. Daniels who found the funds for the new company in which the master is engaged, and he manages the house to leave the master all his time to go on inventing and entertaining the grand folks we have to dinner." "Mr.Daniels! not the old Jew who played that queer straight trumpet at Munich--" "Yes, the turkophone! Ah, he has no need to go about the music halls now--he is, if not rich, the man who leads rich men by the nose, to come and deposit their superfluous cash in our strong-box." And she pointed fondly to a large iron-clamped coffin which occupied the space between two of the windows.
It was a novelty, for Cesarine did not recollect seeing it before.
Continuing her survey, it seemed to her that she noticed a different arrangement of the ornaments than when she was queen here, and that the fresh flowers in the vases and two palmettoes in urns were placed with a taste the German maid had never shown. "Let me see! this Jewish Orpheus had a daughter--" "Exactly; she never leaves him.
She has rooms within his just the same as at our house in Munich.
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