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Go back to Cinq-Cygne, and give this gold piece to that little Anicette from me. Julien shall have the credit of enticing her away," he continued, addressing Goulard. "That bit of gold will inform her that she is to follow him. Anicette may be useful to the success of our candidate." "Anicette?" "Monsieur, it is now thirty-two years since lady's-maids have served my purposes.
They expect Monseigneur the Bishop of Troyes to-night." "Monsieur Troubert! I should like to know how long he is going to stay." "Anicette thinks for some time; and she believes he is coming to meet the gentleman who is now at the Mulet. They expect more company. The coachman told me they were talking a great deal about the election. Monsieur le president Michu is expected in a few days."
"My legal brother," said Achille Pigoult, "is not very strong on the history of the middle ages." "Come, Malvina!" said the stout notary to his wife, making no reply to his young associate. "Tell me, Monsieur Antonin," said Cecile to the sub-prefect, "you spoke of Anicette, the maid of the Princesse de Cadignan; do you know her?"
And he left the room to give Julien orders to go with Anicette in the chariot and coax her away from the princess at any price. At this moment Simon Giguet, who had got through his bowing and scraping to all the influential men of Arcis, and who regarded himself as sure of his election, joined the circle around Cecile and Mademoiselle Mollot. The evening was far advanced. Ten o'clock had struck.
Poupart came to the meeting here this morning only because the gentleman wished him to do so; if he had sent him to Paris, he'd go. Gothard told Poupart to keep silent about the gentleman, and to fool all inquisitive people." "If you can get Anicette here, don't fail to let me know," said Antonin. "But I could see her at Cinq-Cygne if monsieur would send me to his house at Val-Preux."
The letter was written and signed by the prefect of the Aube. "You have been talking prose without knowing it," said the Unknown, taking back the letter. Antonin Goulard, already struck with the aristocratic tone and manners of this personage, became respectful. "How was that, monsieur?" he asked. "By endeavoring to entice Anicette. She told us of the attempts of your man Julien to corrupt her.
"What will strike you as very strange," said Antonin Goulard, "is that the party at Cinq-Cygne have just sent Mademoiselle Anicette, the maid of the Princesse de Cadignan, in the Cinq-Cygne carriage, with a note to the stranger, and he is going now to pass the night there." "Ah ca!" said Olivier Vinet, "then he is not a man; he's a devil, a phoenix, he will poculate "
Julien, a young countryman, after serving six months in the household of the Comte de Gondreville, had entered the service of the sub-prefect, who wanted a servant of the right style. "But, monsieur, Anicette is my father's god-daughter. Papa, who wanted to do well by the girl, whose father was dead, sent her to a dressmaker in Paris because my mother could not endure her." "Is she pretty?"
But my little tiger, Paradise, got the better of him, and he ended by admitting that you wanted to put Anicette into the service of one of the richest families in Arcis. Now, as the richest family in Arcis is the Beauvisage family I make no doubt it is Mademoiselle Cecile who covets this treasure." "Yes, monsieur." "Very good; then Anicette shall enter the Beauvisage household at once."
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