[Samuel Brohl & Company by Victor Cherbuliez]@TWC D-Link bookSamuel Brohl & Company CHAPTER III 31/35
"You have not kept your word, you have forgotten me; you did not write to me.
I am tired of waiting, so here I am." "And where are you going ?" "To the Hotel Badrutt, to plead my own cause, because my advocate has failed me." "Ah! you have chosen an excellent time," cried M.Moriaz; "you have a real genius for arriving in season.
Go, hurry, plead, moan, weep, entreat; you will be well received; you can come and tell me all about it." "What do you mean ?" asked Camille; "is it all over? Have you spoken, and did she silence you ?" "Not at all; she listened to me, without enthusiasm, it is true, but with attention and deference, when suddenly--Ah! my poor friend, how can it be helped? This sad world is full of accidents and Poles." M.Langis looked at him in amazement, as if to ask for an explanation. M.Moriaz continued: "Do yourself justice.
You are the most honest fellow upon earth, I grant; you are a charming man, and an engineer of the highest merit.
But, unfortunately, there is no mystery of blood and tears in your existence; you are perfectly unpretending, frank, unaffected, and as transparent as crystal; in short, you are not a stranger.
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