An idea with any spark in it seems like a piece of rudeness there, so accustomed have people become to colourless words. Woe betide anyone who innovates in speech! -- FAUBLAS

After several months of ordeals, this was the point Julien had reached on the day the steward of the household handed him the third quarterly instalment of his salary. M. de La Mole had put him in charge of supervising the administration of his estates in Brittany and Normandy. Julien visited them frequently. He was wholly in charge of the correspondence relating to the notorious lawsuit with the Abbé de Frilair. M. Pirard had briefed him.

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