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"To know " replied Rouget, turning the color of a boiled lobster. "Do you wish to send me back?" she asked. "No, mademoiselle." "Well, what is it you want to know? You have some reason " "Yes, I want to know " "What?" said Flore. "You won't tell me?" exclaimed Rouget. "Yes I will, on my honor " "Ah! that's it," returned Rouget, with a frightened air. "Are you an honest girl?" "I'll take my oath "
People flocked to their doors to see the crab-girl's triumph over the family. This astounding event made the sensation on which Max counted; so that when they all returned at five o'clock, nothing was talked of in every household but the cordial understanding between Max and Flore and the nephew of old Rouget. The incident of the pictures and the four thousand francs circulated already.
The situation of Flore Brazier would have been very embarrassing were it not for the condition into which she was thrown by Max's death. A brain-fever set in, combined with a dangerous inflammation resulting from her escapade to Vatan. If she had had her usual health, she might have fled the house where, in the room above her, Max's room, and in Max's bed, lay and suffered Max's murderer.
Rouget consented without objection to the action Flore dictated to him; but he insisted that the investment in the Funds, producing fifty thousand francs a year, should stand in Flore's name as holding a life-interest only, and in his as owner of the principal.
All that is here shall be yours; you shall take care of my property, it is almost yours now for I love you; I have always loved you since the day you came and stood there there! with bare feet." Flore made no answer. When the silence became embarrassing, Jean-Jacques had recourse to a terrible argument. "Come," he said, with visible warmth, "wouldn't it be better than returning to the fields?"
"You certainly have very singular ideas about the clergy," said Madame Hochon to her husband. "Bah!" exclaimed the old man, "that's just like you pious women." "God would never bless an enterprise undertaken in a sacrilegious spirit," said Madame Bridau. "Use religion for such a purpose! Why, we should be more criminal than Flore."
I have come here, dear brother, to ask for help in my affliction; but do not suppose that we wish to make any remonstrance as to the manner in which you may dispose of your property " "Madame," said Flore, "we know how unjust your father was to you. Monsieur, here, can tell you," she went on, looking fixedly at her victim, "that the only quarrels we have ever had were about you.
Yes, Flore shall love you, and if she doesn't satisfy you thunder! I'll thrash her." "Oh! I never could allow that. A blow struck at Flore would break my heart." "But it is the only way to govern women and horses. A man makes himself feared, or loved, or respected.
Flore reserved to herself the business of making Monsieur sell out the investments in Issoudun and its immediate neighborhood. The principal notary in Bourges was requested by Rouget to get him a loan of one hundred and forty thousand francs on his landed estate. Nothing was known at Issoudun of these proceedings, which were secretly and cleverly carried out.
The old doctor had made his son extremely unhappy, especially since he came of age, which happened in 1791; but he had given the little peasant-girl the material pleasures which are the ideal of happiness to country-folk. When Fanchette asked Flore, after the funeral, "Well, what is to become of you, now that monsieur is dead?"
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