Chapter

 1 VI   |       himself down, and while his clerk was busy in authenticating
 2 VI   |         chagrin, he drew from his clerk’s portfolio two forms, which
 3 VII  |     overcoat, he must be either a clerk or the keeper of some little
 4 VII  |    coating of dust. There sat the clerk reading a newspaper, spread
 5 VII  |         accompanied by Lecoq, the clerk raised his head. “Ah!” said
 6 VII  |       examination,” continued the clerk, “and I must get the prisoner
 7 VII  |           entered the office. The clerk at once dipped his pen in
 8 VII  |      features.~“Now,” resumed the clerk, “will you answer?”~But
 9 VII  |    questioning; and silencing the clerk by a gesture, he told the
10 VII  |      under the beam,” replied the clerk. “We must make a note of
11 VII  |          a rascal!” exclaimed the clerk.~“Then you think—” began
12 VII  |         alighted, followed by his clerk.~Lecoq rose and hastened,
13 VII  |       from the prison without his clerk.~He was walking very fast,
14 VIII |       learnt from M. d’Escorval’s clerk that when the magistrate
15 IX   |     Segmuller a grave and slender clerk would have excited distrust;
16 IX   |       caricature of himself. This clerk’s name was Goguet. He was
17 IX   |        have been, for Goguet, the clerk, nodded approvingly. “Capital!”
18 IX   |        magistrate assisted by his clerk, it also allows the presence
19 IX   |      Segmuller warned Goguet, the clerk with the silly smile, to
20 IX   |     without a word approached his clerk to inspect the notes taken
21 IX   |          you please.”~The smiling clerk looked back through his
22 IX   |         form and handed it to his clerk, saying: “This is an order
23 X    |       paused; Goguet, the smiling clerk, had just returned.~Behind
24 X    |       around. Goguet, the smiling clerk, then closed the door, and,
25 X    |         act.”~“Ah!” exclaimed the clerk, whose smile had disappeared, “
26 X    |           you—Goguet, you, an old clerk—make such a proposition!
27 X    |    scandal of Goguet, the smiling clerk.~M. Segmuller also found
28 X    |           for Goguet, the smiling clerk, he chuckled to himself
29 X    | astonishment. Goguet, the smiling clerk, alone found the scene amusing.~
30 XI   |         whose coming had made the clerk turn pale, had proved to
31 XI   |        you. Goguet, find it.”~The clerk at once read the passage
32 XII  |          that Goguet, the smiling clerk, could not conceal an approving
33 XII  |        words, Goguet, the smiling clerk, whose pen was rapidly flying
34 XII  |           old woman.”~Goguet, the clerk, wrote all this down admiringly. “
35 XII  |      Would you like me to send my clerk out of the room, on an errand?”
36 XII  |        the magistrate sadly. “The clerk will now read the minutes
37 XIII |    consecutive hours.~The smiling clerk, who had kept his place
38 XIII |    considerable confidence in his clerk’s long experience. He sometimes
39 XIII |         his wife.”~Turning to his clerk, M. Segmuller added: “Quick,
40 XIII |        write, and accordingly the clerk rang the bell for lights.
41 XVI  |        clock, Goguet, the smiling clerk, put in an appearance and
42 XVI  |           certainly early for his clerk.~Goguet’s curiosity had
43 XVI  |          no headway,” thought the clerk. “May’s prospects are encouraging.”
44 XVI  |    valuable time,” he said to his clerk. “I was to examine the widow
45 XVI  |          ah!” thought the smiling clerk, in a flutter of delight, “
46 XVI  |          magistrate turned to his clerk: “Goguet,” said he, “read
47 XVI  |     monotonous voice, the smiling clerk repeated: “I should like
48 XVII |       orders, Goguet, the smiling clerk, had just finished drawing
49 XVIII|         than M. Segmuller and his clerk rose from their seats. They
50 XVIII|             Why not?” the smiling clerk ventured to remark. “There
51 XVIII| magistrate, the governor, and the clerk.~“At least I think so,”
52 XVIII|         May,” thought the smiling clerk.~But Lecoq was still busily
53 XIX  |        fear!”~Goguet, the smiling clerk, could not conceal an approving
54 XIX  |        Lecoq took his seat at the clerk’s desk, and, provided with
55 XIX  |           followed by the smiling clerk, who was the magistrate’
56 XIX  |          when Goguet, the smiling clerk, boldly broke the silence
57 XXIV |           present—M. d’Escorval’s clerk. So they could say nothing.