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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Postel and his wife have come to see us, no doubt," said the doctor. "No," said Courtois, "the chaise has come from Mansle." "A lawyer!" cried Sechard; "the very word gives me the colic!" "Thank you!" said the Maire of Marsac, named Cachan, who for twenty years had been an attorney at Angouleme, and who had once been required to prosecute Sechard.
I let Cachan talk to gain time for you; I am sure of gaining the day at Poitiers " "But how much will it cost to win the day?" asked Mme. Sechard. "Fees if you win, one thousand francs if we lose our case." "Oh, dear!" cried poor Eve; "why, the remedy is worse than the disease!" Petit-Claud was not a little confused at this cry of innocence enlightened by the progress of the flames of litigation.
This document was accompanied by a letter from Metivier, instructing Maitre Cachan, notary of Angouleme, to prosecute David Sechard with the utmost rigor of the law.
"Let me know if your husband consents to the proposals that are all but definitely offered by the Cointets," said Petit-Claud at the gate of the prison; "I will come at once with an order for David's release from Cachan, and in all likelihood he will not go back again to prison."
Courtois and Cachan signaled in vain to Sechard; he went on: "Three hundred thousand francs, which raises the whole estate to about five hundred thousand francs." "Monsieur Cachan," asked Eve Sechard, "what proportion does the law allot to a natural child?"
The whole personal property of Sechard junior therefore represented the sum of four thousand francs; and Cachan and Petit-Claud made claims for seven thousand francs in costs already incurred, to say nothing of expenses to come, for the blossom gave promise of fine fruits enough, as the reader will shortly see.
On behalf of Sechard senior, therefore, Petit-Claud claimed that the presses, being fixtures, were so much the more to be regarded as tools and implements of trade, and the less liable to seizure, in that the house had been a printing office since the reign of Louis XIV. Cachan, on Metivier's account, waxed indignant at this.
"I have seen him on business," said a superior officer to me, "a dozen times, but I never have been able to explain what I came for; he talked so incessantly that I could not put in a word." I was out this morning along the Southern outposts, the forts were firing intermittently. At Cachan there was a sharp interchange of shots going on between the Prussian sentinels and Mobiles.
"My poor David will never improve; he will always be absent-minded!" said Eve, smiling. "A lawyer from Paris," said Courtois. "Have you any business in Paris?" "No," said Eve. "But you have a brother there," observed Courtois. "Take care lest he should have anything to say about old Sechard's estate," said Cachan. "He had his finger in some very queer concerns, worthy man!"
The old vinegrower had become his client on this wise. He came to Angouleme on the day after Eve's visit, and went to Maitre Cachan for advice. His son owed him arrears of rent; how could he come by this rent in the scrimmage in which his son was engaged?
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