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Ah, no, Balthazar's daughter was near attaining all that she had been taught to desire, for a purchaser came and he bid lavishly. You know very well that my father would have been delighted. But you must need upset the bargain. 'No, I will not have it! Count Eglamore must cry. It cost you very highly to speak those words.
From that time Balthazar's condition grew rapidly worse. The man formerly so wrapped up in his domestic happiness, who played for hours with his children on the parlor carpet or round the garden paths, who seemed able to exist only in the light of his Pepita's dark eyes, did not even perceive her pregnancy, seldom shared the family life, and even forgot his own.
So calm were his nerves, crippled and half roasted as he was ere he mounted the scaffold, that when one of the executioners was slightly injured in the ear by the flying from the handle of the hammer with which he was breaking the fatal pistol in pieces, as the first step in the execution a circumstance which produced a general laugh in the crowd a smile was observed upon Balthazar's face in sympathy with the general hilarity.
Pierquin, with an appraising eye, stated that Madame Claes's possessions in her own right to use the notarial phrase might still be recovered, and ought to amount to nearly a million and a half of francs; basing this estimate partly on the forest of Waignies, whose timber, counting the full-grown trees, the saplings, the primeval growths, and the recent plantations, had immensely increased in value during the last twelve years, and partly on Balthazar's own property, of which enough remained to "cover" the claims of his children, if the liquidation of their mother's fortune did not yield sufficient to release him.
But Balthazar's manner and frank speech was beyond suspicion. He told her exactly what clothing Lieutenant Hyde was wearing, how he looked, what words he said, and then with a little hesitation took a silver crown piece from his pocket and added "he gave it to me.
"Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" says Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing, commenting on Balthazar's music. But they do, for all that, though no one considers sheep's gut the explanation. To cry "sex" and to talk of nature's mad preoccupation with the species throws no light on the matter, and robs it of no whit of its magic.
Madame Francois took hold of Balthazar's bridle and backed him so as to bring the wheels of the waggon close to the footway. Then, having marked out her four yards with some wisps of straw, after removing the back of the cart, she asked Florent to hand her the vegetables bunch by bunch.
For a while she studied the goings and comings of the man with angry impatience; did he not know that which was denied to her all that her husband hid from her, all that she dared not inquire into? Even a servant was preferred to a wife! The day came; she approached the place, trembling, yet almost happy. For the first time in her life she encountered Balthazar's anger.
The glance that flashed from the eye of Balthazar's wife was withering; but the dogmatic bailiff was by far too well satisfied with his own wisdom to be conscious of its effects. "And a headsman's daughter," continued the examining judge; "why art thou here?" "Because I am a wife and a mother.
Monsieur Claes and his daughter thought it was a very natural action, and their sorrow was too absorbing to let them even think of the lawyer. Balthazar's despair was indeed so great that persons who were disposed to blame his conduct could not do otherwise than forgive him, less on account of the Science which might have excused him, than for the remorse which could not undo his deeds.
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