Four days passed thus, during which Buvatremaining absent from the office on pretext of indispositionsucceeded in completing the two copies, one for the Prince de Listhnay, the other for Dubois. During these four dayscertainly the most agitated of his lifehe was so taciturn and gloomy that Bathilde several times asked him what was the matter; but as he always answered nothing, and began to sing his little song, Bathilde was easily deceived, particularly as he still left every morning as if to go to the officeso that she saw no material alteration from his ordinary habits.
As to D'Harmental, he received every morning a visit from the Abbe Brigaud, announcing that everything was going on right; and as his own love affairs were quite as prosperous, D'Harmental began to think that to be a conspirator was the happiest thing on the earth.
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