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"I quite expect that one fine day we shall read in the advertisement-sheet that he is dead," she would reply. Old Canquoelle bore a perpetual certificate of his native province in his accent. His name was that of a tiny estate called les Canquoelles, a word meaning cockchafer in some districts, situated in the department of Vaucluse, whence he had come.
He worked then, like so many other licentiates, in politics and literature, by which he kept himself for a time above want for he had nothing to expect from his family. His father, the youngest brother of the dead uncle, has eleven other children, who live on a small estate called Les Canquoelles.
At last every one had fallen into the habit of calling him Canquoelle, instead of des Canquoelles, and the old man took no offence, for in his opinion the nobility had perished in 1793; and besides, the land of les Canquoelles did not belong to him; he was a younger son's younger son. Nowadays old Canquoelle's costume would look strange, but between 1811 and 1820 it astonished no one.
It would seem necessary to explain here the terrible and profoundly cunning man who was hidden under the guise of Pere Canquoelle, as Vautrin was hidden under that of the Abbe Carlos. Born at Canquoelles, the only possession of his family, which was highly respectable, this Southerner's name was Peyrade.
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