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`` Very good , '' replied Dutocq , `` we 'll go and see Cerizet . '' These words , `` go and see Cerizet , '' were overheard by Minard , who was following the two associates ; but they offered no meaning to his mind . The two men were so outside of his own course and projects that he heard them without listening to them . `` This has been one of the finest days in our lives , '' said Brigitte to her brother , when she found herself alone with him in the deserted salon , at half-past two in the morning . `` What a distinction ! to be thus selected by your fellow-citizens ! '' `` Do n't be mistaken about it , Brigitte ; we owe it all , my child , to one man . ''