Twenty-four hours after the breaking of the Japanese vase, Julien was unquestionably one of the most unhappy men in the world.
[CHAPTER LI]
THE SECRET NOTE
I have seen everything I relate, and if I may have made a mistake when I saw it, I am certainly not deceiving you in telling you of it. Letter to the author.
The marquis summoned him; M. de la Mole looked rejuvenated, his eye was brilliant.
“Let us discuss your memory a little,” he said to Julien, “it is said to be prodigious. Could you learn four pages by heart and go and say them at London, but without altering a single word?”
The marquis was irritably fingering, the day’s Quotidienne, and was trying in vain to hide an extreme seriousness which Julien had never noticed in him before, even when discussing the Frilair lawsuit.