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" The business in Pipriac had been as excellent as in
Maure and Guichen. You will have gathered this from the fact that
they drank Volnay.
"I will concede it, my dear Scaramouche, so that I may hear the
sequel."
"I am disposed to exercise this power if the inducement is
sufficient. You will realize that for fifteen livres a month a
man does not sell such exceptional gifts as mine.
"There is an alternative," said M. Binet, darkly.
"There is no alternative. Don't be a fool, Binet."
Binet sat up as if he had been prodded. Members of his company
did not take this tone of direct rebuke with him.
"Anyway, I make you a present of it," Scaramouche pursued, airily.
"Exercise it if you please. Step outside and inform the police that
they can lay hands upon one Andre-Louis Moreau. But that will be
the end of your fine dreams of going to Redon, and for the first
time in your life playing in a real theatre. Without me, you can't
do it, and you know it; and I am not going to Redon or anywhere
else, in fact I am not even going to Fougeray, until we have an
equitable arrangement.


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