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an attempt to kill with a caress ! To appoint Monsieur Baudoyer is to do honor to the virtues , the talents of the middle classes , of whom we shall ever be the supporters , though their cause seems at times a lost one . This appointment , we repeat , will be an act of justice and good policy ; consequently we may be sure it will not be made . '' On the morrow , Friday , the usual day for the dinner given by Madame Rabourdin , whom des Lupeaulx had left at midnight , radiant in beauty , on the staircase of the Bouffons , arm in arm with Madame de Camps -LRB- Madame Firmiani had lately married -RRB- , the old roue awoke with his thoughts of vengeance calmed , or rather refreshed , and his mind full of a last glance exchanged with Celestine . `` I 'll make sure of Rabourdin 's support by forgiving him now , -- I 'll get even with him later . If he has n't this place for the time being I should have to give up a woman who is capable of becoming a most precious instrument in the pursuit of high political fortune . She understands everything ; shrinks from nothing , from no idea whatever !