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A Start in Life-Part21_Honore de Balzac(1799-1850)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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very virtuous and very worthy Maitre Bordin, do not hesitate to



attribute this unheard-of preservation, when all titles,

privileges, and charters were lost, to the protection of Sainte-



Genevieve, patron Saint of this office, and also to the reverence

which the last of the procureurs of noble race had for all that



belonged to ancient usages and customs. In the uncertainty of

knowing the exact part of Sainte-Genevieve and Maitre Bordin in



this miracle, we have resolved, each of us, to go to Saint-Etienne

du Mont and there hear mass, which will be said before the altar



of that Holy-Shepherdess who sends us sheep to shear, and also to

offer a breakfast to our master Bordin, hoping that he will pay



the costs.

Signed: Oignard, first clerk; Poidevin, second clerk; Proust,



clerk; Augustin Coret, sub-clerk.

At the office.



November, 1806.

At three in the afternoon, the above-named clerks hereby return



their grateful thanks to their excellent master, who regaled them

at the establishment of the Sieur Rolland restaurateur, rue du



Hasard, with exquisite wines of three regions, to wit: Bordeaux,

Champagne, and Burgundy, also with dishes most carefully chosen,



between the hours of four in the afternoon to half-past seven in

the evening. Coffee, ices, and liqueurs were in abundance. But



the presence of the master himself forbade the chanting of hymns

of praise in clerical stanzas. No clerk exceeded the bounds of



amiable gayety, for the worthy, respectable, and generouspatron

had promised to take his clerks to see Talma in "Brittanicus," at



the Theatre-Francais. Long life to Maitre Bordin! May God shed

favors on his venerable pow! May he sell dear so glorious a



practice! May the rich clients for whom he prays arrive! May his

bills of costs and charges be paid in a trice! May our masters to



come be like him! May he ever be loved by clerks in other worlds

than this!



Here followed thirty-three reports of various receptions of new

clerks, distinguished from one another by different writing and



different inks, also by quotations, signatures, and praises of good

cheer and wines, which seemed to show that each report was written and



signed on the spot, "inter pocula."

Finally, under date of the month of June, 1822, the period when



Desroches took the oath, appears this constitutional declaration:--

I, the undersigned, Francois-Claude-Marie Godeschal, called by



Maitre Desroches to perform the difficult functions of head-clerk

in a Practice where the clients have to be created, having learned



through Maitre Derville, from whose office I come, of the

existence of the famous archives architriclino-basochien, so



celebrated" target="_blank" title="a.著名的">celebrated at the Palais, have implored our gracious master to

obtain them from his predecessor; for it has become of the highest



importance to recover a documentbearing date of the year 1786,

which is connected with other documents deposited for safe-keeping



at the Palais, the existence of which has been certified to by

Messrs. Terrasse and Duclos, keepers of records, by the help of



which we may go back to the year 1525, and find historical

indications of the utmost value on the manners, customs, and



cookery of the clerical race.

Having received a favorable answer to this request, the present



office has this day been put in possession of these proofs of the

worship in which our predecessors held the Goddess Bottle and good



living.

In consequence thereof, for the edification of our successors, and



to renew the chain of years and goblets, I, the said Godeschal,

have invited Messieurs Doublet, second clerk; Vassal, third clerk;



Herisson and Grandemain, clerks; and Dumets, sub-clerk, to

breakfast, Sunday next, at the "Cheval Rouge," on the Quai Saint-



Bernard, where we will celebrate the victory of obtaining this

volume which contains the Charter of our gullets.






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