The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-09
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The editor of the CIGGrc is obliged tc
leave Paris for four and twenty hoHrS the
sub.cd;tor selects this precise moment Tor DC
inc IL. and VI. Ari-td" Gr.un. the Ncstor o!
The stall. is absent c,nrasSing provincial
constituency in his own and the Liberia! III
tcrcst. So The editor secs noth!n" else for II
Int 10 ask NJ. Tin0con Tartinc. before
starting. kindly to discharge his functions
for a single day; and VI. Tartinc, who would
have uudcrtakcnthc command olthc Army OF
the Loire at five minutes notice. consents
with pleasure. However, the editor feel:
some Slight mi>"iyinG>, not that he mlslrustS
NJ. Taltinc's head, but he knows his hcart--M.
Tartiuc is prone to enthusiasm. Wherefore,
in Getting into the train, the director Of tile
CF7are points out to his chron1qucr, who has
come to sec him of, that alter all tA"fc VIII
not be much 10 DO; that he has gwen t!'t
main directions for the next nilnDcr. ana
that the principal thing will be to watch 'hti
nothing crcepS into the leaders OF the MOI -
likely to hurt the feelings OF General dr
L'Admirault, all awkward person TO ohcho
bv reason OF the state of siege. NJ. laFtlhc
promises. Then the editor conveys couil-
ter-warning against insidious Government
secretaries who prowl about seeking adlls.
sion for spmi.offic;al paragraphs i'll Influential
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so much warmth that he would recognize Il
Government secretary even disguised under
n hears skin, and perceive the DRIFT OF bis
prose though it were couched i'll SanScrit ~
tarribce. tnat the editor feels rcisSurcd. III
another minute the train has disappeared, am;
NJ. Tartine walks out Of the station with Il
four-anQ-twenty hours kingShip OF tie most
popular organ in Paris.
Having about sixteen hours 10 spare before
he need commence his dutes--tor this is
evening, and the Cfg0re does not appear til
s on the morrow-M. Tartinc goes and dimes.
and thence to the play; and, being OF COM
municative mood, he tells what friends he
meets that it is he who for the nonce rules
the destinies of the Cigare. The result OF
this is that by midnight the report has been
flashed down the whole line OF boulcyar,IS
and into every newspaper Office Of the CAPT
tai that NJ. Tartine has been entrusted with
post which he will fill, not for a day--ior
rumor is fond of addltionS--but fora month,
some even say six weeks; and at III o'clock
the next day, when hc comes down TO the
office, NJ. Tartine finds whole throns of
aiiectionate friends, who. knowing his be-
ncvolent disposition, shake him by the
hand, offer him their assistance, and mean
while would be much obliged il lie would
render them some little services, which
they will explain if he will just give
them each five minutes in private Truth TO
say, NJ. Tartine has slept as soundly AS did
the great Condo on the eve Of Rocroy. 1n-
trepidity is his characteristic. He accepted
Che functions delegated to him, expecting
nothing and fearing nothing; and the ieree
of suitors takes him Il little aback. Never.
thcless he rallies on recognizing in one Il
popular novelist, i'll the other fluent de-
batter, in third an entcrprising money man,
and he calamity leads the way into the cdt
tors room, whittier the novelist follows him.
shutting the door to exclude the ether two
He has not much to ask has the man Of iic-
ton; he simply wants the GgdIe TO an
nounce novel Of his that is coming out.
"Oh, certainly, with pleasure" says VI. Tar
tine: what is the titlc:" "Oh, there's not
much in the title !! answers the author, mod
cstly. SITS Les CherahcrS du BoudO,r but
the scope of these works often needs to be en-
planned to the public beforehand, so that they
may not 60 away with wrong impressions.
This is realistic study Of life. Perhaps
something in this style would DO" and he
draws paper from his pocket. - didn't
write the paragraph myself; it was friend
did 1t. Thank you; know may rely
upon you. Good morning. And he yaiI-
lSutTSs la4t WIN ~ iNtlN 1t l.
with immense satisfaction that we an
nounce Il new work from the pen of N.
A., the gifted author Of LES pccleS
Roses lie Scandale de la Rue H. and
other delightful books. Anything more
piquant in style, more interesting i'll plot. or
more thoroughly artistic in conception than
this new novel, into which NJ. A. has
thrown all his infinitely realistic powers of
description, his" "Yes, but stay cries
NJ. Tartine, "thiS reads like an advertise
ment." However, he has no time to move,
for the door opens again, and in rushcS
the fluent debater, distancing the money
man by head. "My dear II. Tartine,
look at this" he calculates, display
ing yesterdays Ggare; there is the
Parliamentary report, and, to begin
with, my speech, as you observe,
is most hl,niia:insly cllrtailed; but i
shouldn't complain il it were not for this
passage. See, have discussion with u
member of the Left, n Radical, and you give
him the best of it, for after his joke at Inc
miselaby small joke-you add, 'hilarity
Oh all the benches just as if bad made no
repartec." "But did you make onel" asks
VI. Tartine. "Why, Of course" answered
the fluent debater; lat least, ii hadn't, you
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