Crossword-Solution: PICOT 5 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

That’s what the family council meets for to-morrow; and I think, this time, my dear Madame Lambert, your old Picot will find himself restrained.

That poor Monsieur Picot!” she went on, weeping, “they’ll kill him if they continue to worry him in this way.” “I sha’n’t conceal from you,” said Cerizet, “that the justice-of-peace is very ill-disposed to your cause.

But before leaving, the careful housewife removed everything that was at all fragile from his reach; then, by way of a slight attention, she said:-- “Shall I send you some coffee?” “I’ll take it, madame,” responded pere Picot, “and some cognac with it.” “Oh! parbleu! he takes everything,” said Brigitte to the male domestic, and she told the latter to keep an eye on the old madman.

How much do you suppose it was? Twenty-five thousand francs, if you please! This housekeeper, whose name is Madame Lambert--” “Madame Lambert!” cried Felix; “why, that’s Monsieur Picot’s housekeeper; close cap, pale, thin face, speaks always with her eyes lowered, shows no hair?” “That’s she,” said Minard,--“a regular hypocrite!” “Twenty-five thousand francs of savings!” said Felix.

The household in which I am now employed is that of an old savant, named Monsieur Picot, who lives on a first floor, Place de la Madeleine, in the house and apartment formerly occupied by my late masters, the Thuilliers-- “What!” cried la Peyrade, interrupting his reading, “Pere Picot, that ruined old lunatic, occupying such an apartment as that?” “Go on, go on!” said Corentin; “life is full of many strange things.