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While we were at breakfast this morning the servant came rushing in, pale and trembling, and announced to us that pillage had commenced in the Boulevard Haussmann, just around the corner, and that the mob was coming toward our house.
It was situated on the Boulevard Haussmann, on the first floor, and consisted of a series of rooms, gilded from floor to ceiling a foot thick, draped in various light shades of satin, and chiefly furnished with mirrors and clocks. Newman thought them magnificent, thanked Tristram heartily, immediately took possession, and had one of his trunks standing for three months in his drawing-room.
And now he felt that his only hope of safety was in Micheline's love for him. But first of all he must go and see if Herzog had returned, and ascertain the real facts of the position in regard to the Universal Credit Company. Herzog occupied a little house on the Boulevard Haussmann, which he had hired furnished from some Americans. The loud luxury of the Yankees had not frightened him.
Now, silent and proud in the tragedy of failure, it stood masked behind pretentious French houses, blocklike in ugliness, or flauntingly ornate as many buildings in the Rue de Rivoli or Boulevard Haussmann.
If the Parisians decide to become poor and respectable, they are to be congratulated upon the resolve, but the present notion seems to be that they are to become rich and respectable a thing more difficult. Paris the Paris of the Empire and of Haussmann is a house of cards. Its prosperity was a forced and artificial one.
Thus, in less than two minutes from the instant of their encounter, they stood outside Troyon's back door, facing a cramped, malodorous alley-way a dark and noisome souvenir of that wild mediaeval Paris whose effacement is an enduring monument to the fame of the good Baron Haussmann.
This conversation was taking place in Renine's flat on the Boulevard Haussmann, to which Hortense had brought her friend Genevieve Aymard, a slender, pretty little creature with a face over-shadowed by an expression of the greatest melancholy. "Renine will be successful, take my word for it, Genevieve. You will, Renine, won't you?" "Please tell me the rest of the story, mademoiselle," he said.
But the most astonishing thing was what little Bois-l'Héry, with his Parisian street-arab's accent, told us of the home life of his employers. Marquis and Marquise de Bois-l'Héry, second floor, Boulevard Haussmann. Furniture like the Tuileries, blue satin on all the walls, pictures, mantel ornaments, curiosities, a genuine museum, I tell you! overflowing on to the landings.
We walked in silence for some little distance, keeping by the Opera, and so through to the broad Boulevard Haussmann. Thence he turned, crossing the busy thoroughfare, and passing through the Rue Joubert, stopped quite suddenly at last in the mouth of a cul-de-sac which opened from the narrow street.
Since he appeared to have nothing further to say we went down-stairs together. At the door we parted. "I'm a-goin'," he remarked, "to the Champs Elizy to promenard. Where are you a-goin'?" "To the Boulevard Haussmann, Monsieur, to give a lesson," I returned. "I will wish you good-morning." "Good-mornin'," he answered. "Bong" reflecting deeply for a moment "Bong jore.
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