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Updated: June 27, 2025
But, like all shy people, she relieved herself of her burden in the first words she spoke after entering the house. It was a stunning blow. When she heard the accusation made against her daughter, Madame Chebe rose in indignation. No one could ever make her believe such a thing. Her poor Sidonie was the victim of an infamous slander.
M. Chebe imposed upon himself certain rules concerning his goings and comings, and his walks abroad. While the Boulevard Sebastopol was being built, he went twice a day "to see how it was getting on."
Among the very rare persons who inspired a sympathetic feeling in his breast, little Chebe, whom he had known as an urchin, appealed particularly to him; and she, for her part, having become rich too recently not to venerate wealth, talked to her right-hand neighbor with a very perceptible air of respect and coquetry.
When Risler ceased his visits to the brewery, the two last-named worthies likewise turned their backs upon it, for several excellent reasons. In the first place, M. Chebe now lived a considerable distance away. Thanks to the generosity of his children, the dream of his whole life was realized at last.
No one knew better than he the fashionable shops and the bargains; and very often Madame Chebe, annoyed to see her husband's idiotic face at the window while she was energetically mending the family linen, would rid herself of him by giving him an errand to do. "You know that place, on the corner of such a street, where they sell such nice cakes. They would be nice for our dessert."
Only the Risler and Chebe party remained, and the festivity at once changed its aspect, becoming more uproarious.
In a word, M. Chebe possessed all the requisites of a business of some sort, but did not know as yet just what business he would choose.
One could not be with M. Chebe five minutes before he would say in a confidential tone: "You know of the accident that happened to the Duc d'Orleans?" And then he would add, tapping his little bald pate "The same thing happened to me in my youth." Since that famous fall any sort of office work made him dizzy, and he had found himself inexorably confined to standing business.
On that evening Risler had taken the Chebe family to the Gymnase, and throughout the evening he and Madame Chebe had been making signs and winking at each other behind the children's backs. And when they left the theatre Madame Chebe solemnly placed Sidonie's arm in Frantz's, as if she would say to the lovelorn youth, "Now settle matters here is your chance."
In a word, M. Chebe possessed all the requisites of a business of some sort, but did not know as yet just what business he would choose.
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