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And taking advantage of Hulot's amazement, he pushed him out and shut the door. "What a low scoundrel!" said Hulot to himself, as he went upstairs to Lisbeth. "I understand her letter now. Valerie and I will go away from Paris. Valerie is wholly mine for the remainder of my days; she will close my eyes." Lisbeth was out.
Life is a garment; when it is dirty, we must brush it; when it is ragged, it must be patched; but we keep it on as long as we can." This philosophy of life, and her high spirits, postponed Hulot's keenest pangs.
The order was difficult to obey, for the young chief, hearing Hulot's voice, cried out: "By Saint Anne of Auray, don't let them get away! Spread out, spread out, my lads!" and each of the two wings of the Blues was followed by Chouans who were fully as obstinate and far superior in numbers.
These people had been saved from a bankruptcy, which would have reduced them to misery, by the Baroness, acting in behalf of Madame de la Chanterie. In a few months comfort had taken the place of poverty, and Religion had found a home in hearts which once had cursed Heaven with the energy peculiar to Italian stove-fitters. So one of Madame Hulot's first visits was to this family.
"Yes apparently," said Hulot ironically. "Then, I desire that you will leave him, apparently, alone," she said. "Are you afraid he will escape you? You are to escort him with me to Mayenne; he will be in the coach with his mother. Make no objection; it is my will Well, what?" she added, noticing Hulot's grimace; "do you suspect him still?" "Rather." "What do you want to do with him?"
"I am off, then," said Crevel, kissing the Baroness' hand. "But what has that unhappy Hulot done?" "He has swindled the Government." "Good Heavens! I fly, madame; I understand, I admire you!" Crevel bent one knee, kissed Madame Hulot's skirt, and vanished, saying, "You will see me soon."
Finding herself alone, after nightfall, in a hostile country, she began to reflect; and Hulot's advice, together with the recollection of Madame du Gua's attempt, made her tremble with fear.
Exactly as the question might have been put to the Chamber, "Will the estimates pass or not pass?" The smallest initiative on the part of the board of Management was commented on; everything in Baron Hulot's department was carefully noted.
But Hulot's face soon cleared; he began to rejoice in the opportunity to fight for the Republic, and he joyously vowed to escape being the dupe of the Chouans, and to fathom the wily and impenetrable being whom they had done him the honor to employ against him. Before taking any resolution he set himself to study the position in which it was evident the enemy intended to surprise him.
"I should not be in a position to say it, dearest Adeline," cried this singular adorer, interrupting the Baroness, "for you would have found the amount in my pocket-book." And adding action to word, the fat guardsman knelt down on one knee and kissed Madame Hulot's hand, seeing that his speech had filled her with speechless horror, which he took for hesitancy.
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