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The anecdote is related by the historians of Falaise; they were ignorant of its sequel: Twelve brothers, before setting out on a voyage, had concealed twelve similar ingots along the road from Chavignolles to Bretteville, and Marcel begged of his masters to begin a search for them over again. These ingots, said they to each other, had perhaps been buried just before emigration.
Bouvard was assiduously paying his addresses to Madame Bordin. She used to receive him rather cramped in her gown of shot silk, which creaked like a horse's harness, all the while fingering her long gold chain to keep herself in countenance. Their conversations turned on the people of Chavignolles or on "the dear departed," who had been an usher at Livarot.
The steeple of Chavignolles displayed itself in the distance, producing a magnificent effect. With the lower part of a cupboard Gorju manufactured a prie-dieu to put under the Gothic window, for he humoured their hobby. So pronounced was it that they regretted monuments about which nothing at all is known such as the villa residence of the bishops of Séez.
She became a propagandist in their behalf, and the tax-collector, the mayor's secretary, the mayor himself, and everybody in Chavignolles sucked camphor by the aid of quills. However, the hunchback did not get straight; the collector gave up his cigarette; it stopped up his chest twice as much. Foureau made complaints that the pills of aloes gave him hemorrhoids.
Foureau and Marescot interrupted him, exclaiming that he was a communist. "I a communist!" And all kept talking at the same time. When Pécuchet proposed to establish a club, Foureau had the hardihood to reply that they would never see such a thing at Chavignolles. After this, Gorju demanded guns for the National Guard, the general opinion having fixed on him as instructor.
People believed in Louis Blanc's pineapple soup, in Flocon's bed of gold, and Ledru-Rollin's royal orgies; and as the province pretends to know everything that happens in Paris, the inhabitants of Chavignolles had no doubt about these inventions, and gave credence to the most absurd reports.
But Petit would be sure to understand them, and Bouvard having tapped at a window-pane, the schoolmaster quitted his class. He thought it a good joke to have Thiers in prison. This would avenge the people. "Ha! ha! my gentlemen deputies, your turn now!" The volley of musketry on the boulevards met with the approval of the people of Chavignolles.
With two fingers she held wide her petticoat, with her knees bent and her head over her shoulder, as if she were afraid of being surprised. "I beg your pardon! Don't inconvenience yourself!" and this pleasantry amused them so much that they kept repeating it twenty times a day for three months. Meanwhile, the people of Chavignolles were desirous to make their acquaintance.
The finest things among them were the dialogues in the style of villagers, with oaths and bad French, to elevate the mental faculties of the peasants. By a new law, the hawking of pamphlets would be in the hands of the prefects; and they had just crammed Proudhon into St. Pélagie gigantic triumph! The trees of liberty were generally torn down. Chavignolles obeyed orders.
If the curé was willing to give it to him, he would restore the bowl, otherwise not. Through weariness or fear of scandal, M. Jeufroy yielded it up. It was placed amongst their collection near the Cauchoise cap. The bowl decorated the church porch; and they consoled themselves for the loss of it with the reflection that the people of Chavignolles were ignorant of its value.
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