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Updated: June 29, 2025
No man ever acted under a truer inspiration than the minister's secretary when he married this young girl. Agathe was an embodiment of the ideal housekeeper brought up in the provinces and never parted from her mother. Pious, though far from sanctimonious, she had no other education than that given to women by the Church.
Samiel disappears, and the tempest abates. Max raises himself convulsively and finds his companion still lying on the ground face downward. At the beginning of the third act the wedding day has dawned. It finds Agathe kneeling in prayer robed for the wedding. Aennchen twits her for having wept; but "bride's tears and morning rain neither does for long remain."
Agathe believed that the purely physical resemblance which Philippe bore to her carried with it a moral likeness; and she confidently expected him to show at a future day her own delicacy of feeling, heightened by the vigor of manhood.
In spite of the coolness and discretion with which Philippe played his trifling game every night, it happened every now and then that he was what gamblers call "cleaned out." Driven by the irresistible necessity of having his evening stake of ten francs, he plundered the household, and laid hands on his brother's money and on all that Madame Descoings or Agathe left about.
You see by your own self, I may be a good fellow and yet be turned out of house and home, I, the glory of the family " "The disgrace of it!" cried the Descoings. "You shall leave this room, or you shall kill me!" cried Joseph, springing on his brother with the fury of a lion. "My God! my God!" cried Agathe, trying to separate the brothers. At this moment Bixiou and Haudry the doctor entered.
"My dear godmother," said Agathe hastily, "how shall I be able to meet my brother, if that creature is always with him?" "Bah!" said Joseph. "I'll go and see him myself. I don't think him such an idiot, now I find he has the sense to rejoice his eyes with a Titian's Venus."
We have suffered enough here below," she added in a low voice, "for God to take pity upon us." Shortly after, while Monsieur Mouilleron had gone across the way to talk with Max, Gritte greatly astonished Monsieur and Madame Hochon, Agathe, Joseph, and Adolphine by announcing the visit of Monsieur Rouget.
His intentions with regard to the child, whom he cleansed and clothed, and taught, and formed with a care which was all the more remarkable because he was thought to be utterly devoid of tenderness, were interpreted in a variety of ways by the cackling society of the town, whose gossip often gave rise to fatal blunders, like those relating to the birth of Agathe and that of Max.
"There's the matter started. Now, when you see him," said Monsieur Hochon to Agathe, "you must speak plainly to him about his nephews." The letter was carried over by Gritte, who returned ten minutes later to render an account to her masters of all that she had seen and heard, according to a settled provincial custom. "Since yesterday Madame has had the whole house cleaned up, which she left "
Though grieved by the tacit repudiation of her family, Agathe had come to think seldom of those who never thought of her. Once a year she received a letter from her godmother, Madame Hochon, to whom she replied with commonplaces, paying no heed to the advice which that pious and excellent woman gave to her, disguised in cautious words.
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