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Agatha was glad that he was gone; she wished to spare him the humiliation of a refusal; she understood his character well, and felt that the wound inflicted on his self-love, by being rejected, would be more painful to him than his actual disappointment; she knew that Adolphe would not die for love, but she also knew that he would not quietly bear the fancied slight of unreturned affection.
Under these circumstances the letter which Madame Soudry hastily dispatched brought Sibilet to Soulanges through a region of castles in the air. His father-in-law, Sarcus, whom the Soudrys advised to take steps in the interest of his daughter, had gone in the morning to see the general and to propose Adolphe for the vacant post.
She has made up her mind, she conducts her administration in virtue of this principle: Charity well understood begins at home. When Adolphe complains of the contrast between his poverty-stricken wardrobe and Caroline's splendor, she says, "Why, you reproached me with buying nothing for myself!" The husband and the wife here begin to bandy jests more or less acrimonious.
Poor Madeleine was so weak that she could hardly stand up: Louise and I were obliged to support her. At half-past nine, punctually, the conscription began, and amidst a breathless silence one of the mayor's assistants came to the window and called out the first name: "Adolphe Monnier, of the commune of S ;" and a tall country-boy, elbowing his way through the crowd, walked up into the town-hall.
"Ah! my friend! how different it feels up here the sickness is quite gone off, hand me the gun." "In the name of Fortune," said I, "hold your coward tongue here's the boar;" for I could now hear his snorting and loud breathing in the copse hard by. "Do you hear him?" said Adolphe from his perch, his cheeks as green as the leaves which covered him. "Hear him?" I exclaimed, "yes, I partly see him.
Adolphe has ordered a dainty little dinner for two, at Borrel's Rocher de Cancale. "As we are going to the Varieties, suppose we dine at the tavern," exclaims Adolphe, on the boulevard, with the air of a man suddenly struck by a generous idea.
Oh! as to fruit, princes, bankers and great lords alone can eat it. Dessert is a cause of ruin. Adolphe often hears Caroline say to Madame Deschars: "How do you manage?" Conferences are held in your presence upon the proper way to keep cooks under the thumb.
There are other reasons very well known to women, the principal of which is, that, in their opinion, love in men is always small. "Where did you get that idea, my sweet? You must have dreamed it!" "What!" Caroline stands stark still: she opens wide her eyes which are already considerably widened by amazement. Being inwardly epileptic, she says not a word: she merely gazes at Adolphe.
An intelligent reader will find little difficulty in placing this letter in its proper epoch in the lives of Adolphe and Caroline.
"It is the same voice!" said Paquita, in a melancholy voice, which De Marsay could not overhear, "and the same ardor," she added. "So be it yes," she said, with an abandonment of passion which no words can describe. "Yes; but not to-night. To-night Adolphe, I gave too little opium to La Concha. She might wake up, and I should be lost.
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