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The furniture of the room was not wanting in the sort of luxury we prize in these days, though at that time it had no value in Issoudun. The clock, standing on the mantle-shelf between two superb silver candlesticks with six branches, had an ecclesiastical splendor which revealed the hand of Boulle.
The grandson of the celebrated Boulle was seated before a round table on which were placed the criminal exhibits which had been collected with remarkable intelligence. I, the insignificant secretary of the meeting, occupied a place at this desk, where it was my office to take down a report of the meeting.
Champlain, having accomplished all that seemed at that time attainable in France, returned to Quebec in the summer of 1626, accompanied by the priest Le Caron, and his brother-in-law, Boullé, as his lieutenant. He found the works scarcely advanced beyond the condition in which he had left them two years before. His people also were in a somewhat enfeebled condition.
"Eustache Boullé, at your service," and he bowed gracefully. "But I did not know you, Mam'selle. You were such a child four years ago. Even then you made an impression upon me." She was so little used to compliments that it did not stir her in the slightest. She was wondering, and at length she said "How did you find me?" "By hard searching, Mam'selle.
A genuine lustre by Boulle will sell at a public auction for three thousand francs; the same thing reproduced by casting may be made for a thousand or twelve hundred; one is archaeologically what a picture by Raphael is in painting, the other is a copy. At what would you value a copy of a Raphael?
M. Boullé cried, with a lover's desperation. "Do not fear. She has been like a child to me. No harm shall come to her." Miladi in her transport of rage tore the handkerchief she held in her hand to shreds, and stamped her foot on the floor. "She shall never come in this house again, the deceitful, ungrateful wretch. And he shall not care for her, or befriend her in any way.
Champlain started at once for Dieppe, together with Eustache Boullé whom he appointed his lieutenant, and Destouches, his second lieutenant.
All the improvements of Paris might have been completed with the money spent on stucco castings, gilt mouldings, and sham sculpture during the last fifteen years by individuals of the Crevel stamp. Beyond this drawing-room was a splendid boudoir furnished with tables and cabinets in imitation of Boulle. The bedroom, smart with chintz, also opened out of the drawing-room.
It was so lovely that both were moved to silence. Now and then they glanced at each other, at some special point or happening. She was not effusive. After a while she began with "Do you like M. Boullé very much?" "He is a promising young man, I am glad he did not return to France. We have few enough of them here. Every one counts." "He will go some time," she said, reflectively.
It was furnished with an almost feminine delicacy of style, with wide-seated, spindle-legged Louis XV. chairs and a couch covered with rich brocade. The desk was a work of Boulle. A small tapestry of the Gobelins made a ragged glow of color on the wall. Frederic Fernand had recreated an atmosphere two hundred years old. He seated them at once.
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