[The Three Cities Trilogy by Emile Zola]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Cities Trilogy BOOK IV 170/236
"When Anarchism flourishes, everything flourishes, eh? That bomb has helped on the affairs of a good many fine fellows that I know.
Do you think that my governor Fonsegue, who's so attentive to Silviane yonder, complains of it? And doesn't Sagnier, who's spreading himself out behind the presiding judge, and whose proper place would be between the four gendarmes--doesn't he owe a debt to Salvat for all the abominable advertisements he has been able to give his paper by using the wretched fellow's back as a big drum? And I need not mention the politicians or the financiers or all those who fish in troubled waters." "But I say," interrupted Duthil, "it seems to me that you yourself made good use of the affair.
Your interview with the little girl Celine brought you in a pot of money." Massot, as it happened, had been struck with the idea of ferreting out Madame Theodore and the child, and of relating his visit to them in the "Globe," with an abundance of curious and touching particulars.
The article had met with prodigious success, Celine's pretty answers respecting her imprisoned father having such an effect on ladies with sensitive hearts that they had driven to Montmartre in their carriages in order to see the two poor creatures.
Thus alms had come to them from all sides; and strangely enough the very people who demanded the father's head were the most eager to sympathise with the child. "Well, I don't complain of my little profits," said the journalist in answer to Duthil.
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