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Madame de Renal wanted a new coat, and she had but four days in which to send to Besancon, and to procure from there the uniform, the weapons, the hat, and all the other requisites for a Guard of Honour.
What is rather amusing is that she thought it imprudent to have Julien's coat made at Verrieres.
There he discarded with a sigh his fine sky-blue coat, his sabre, his epaulettes, to resume the little threadbare black coat.
He noticed for the first time a small man of intelligent appearance, whose coat was almost bare of embroidery.
But he wore a sky-blue riband over this extremely simple coat.
He did indeed break open with an iron bar a valuable mahogany writing desk, imported from Paris, which he used often to polish with the tail of his coat when he thought he detected a spot on its surface.
He had been obliged to pass from the stage of being pitied for the shabby apple-green coat in which everybody remembered him in his younger days to that of being envied for his Norman horses, his gold chains, the clothes he ordered from Paris, in short, all his present prosperity.
He had borrowed from Fouque a layman's coat, and it was in this attire that he crossed the drawbridges.
The rival had been astonished by Julien's eyes; his glass of brandy drained at a gulp, he said a few words to Amanda, thrust his hands into the side pockets of his ample coat, and made his way to one of the billiard tables, breathing loudly and staring at Julien.
Amanda observed his courage; it formed a charming contrast with the simplicity of his manners; in an instant, she preferred him to the big young man in the long coat.
'For a poor devil like me,' thought Julien, 'without protectors and without money, there will be no great difference between a Seminary and a prison; I must leave my lay clothes in some inn, where I can put on my black coat.
In this weather, it is a mistake to leave a broadcloth coat lying.'
YOUNGHe made haste to brush his coat and to go downstairs; he was late.
Julien discovered in almost all of them an innate respect for the man who wears a coat of _fine cloth_.
'Is it surprising then,' Julien asked himself, 'if the happy man, in their eyes, is first of all the man who has just eaten a good dinner, and after that he who possesses a good coat!
My comrades have a definite vocation; that is to say, they see in the ecclesiastical calling a long continuation of this happiness: dining well and having a warm coat in winter.'
One day, when he had been driven into a cafe in the Rue Saint-Honore by a sudden shower, a tall man in a beaver coat, surprised at his gloomy stare, began to stare back at him exactly as Mademoiselle Amanda's lover had stared at him, long before, at Besancon.
He presented one of the cards that had been flung at him:'This is my name,' said the man of fashion, in whom Julien's black coat, at seven o'clock in the morning, inspired but scant respect; 'but I do not understand, the honour ...'His way of pronouncing these last words restored some of Julien's ill humour.
M. Charles de Beauvoisis, after giving it careful thought, was quite satisfied with the cut of Julien's black coat.
'From Staub's, clearly,' he said to himself, listening to him in silence, 'that waistcoat is in good taste, the boots are right; but, on the other hand, that black coat in the early morning!
Seeing him, grasping him by the skirts of his coat, pulling him down from his box and belabouring him with his whip, were the work of a moment.
One day the Marquis said, with that tone of over-elaborate politeness, which often tried Julien's patience:'Allow me, my dear Sorel, to make you the present of a blue coat: when it suits you to put it on and to pay me a visit, you will be, in my eyes, the younger brother of the Comte de Chaulnes, that is to say, the son of my old friend the Duke.'Julien was somewhat in the dark as to what was happening; that evening he ventured to pay a visit in his blue coat.
The following morning Julien appeared before the Marquis, in a black coat, with his portfolio and the letters to be signed.
That evening, in his blue coat, it was with an entirely different tone and one in every way as polite as the evening before.
In the evening, when Julien appeared in his blue coat, there was never any talk of business.
One day, at the end of a morning interview, in his black coat, and for the discussion of business, Julien amused the Marquis, who kept him for a couple of hours, and positively insisted upon giving him a handful of bank notes which his broker had just brought him from the Bourse.
'I do not wish to make you lay aside your black coat, and I have grown accustomed to the more amusing tone which I have adopted with the man in blue.
'In spite of all the drawbacks of his eternal black coat, and of that priestly face, which he is obliged to assume, poor boy, if he is not to die of hunger, his merit alarms them, nothing could be clearer.
They are afraid of him in his black coat.
'I, a poor peasant from the Jura,' he kept on repeating, 'I, I condemned always to wear this dismal black coat!
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