CHAPTER XXXIV . THE HÔTEL DE LA MOLE
What is he doing here? Will he like it there? Will he try to please?— Ronsard .
If everything in the aristocratic salon of the Hotel de la Mole seemed strange to Julien, that pale young man in his black suit seemed in his turn very strange to those persons who deigned to notice him. Madame de la Mole suggested to her husband that he should send him off on some business on those days when they had certain persons to dinner.
"I wish to carry the experiment to its logical conclusion," answered the marquis. "The abbé Pirard contends that we are wrong in crushing the self-respect of the people whom we allow around us. One can only lean on what resists . The only thing against this man is his unknown face, apart from that he is a deaf mute."
"If I am to
