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Updated: June 7, 2025
But she soon learned to know the first difficulties in her way, thanks to Dame Chevassat, who brought her her dinner as the clock struck six, according to the agreement they had made. The estimable lady had assumed a deeply grieved expression; you might have sworn she had tears in her eyes. In her sweetest voice, she asked:
Hilaire's, done entirely without the expensive board of Mrs. Chevassat. Even this rupture, at which Henrietta had at first rejoiced, became now to her a source of overwhelming trouble. She had still a few things that she might sell, a brooch, her cashmere, her watch, and her ear-rings; but she did not know how and to whom she could sell them.
Chevassat, which very likely would have inflamed the imagination of some poor but ambitious girl, caused nothing but disgust in Henrietta's heart. She had gotten into the habit of thinking of other things while the old woman was holding forth; and her noble soul floated off to regions where these vulgarities could reach her no more. Her life was, nevertheless, a very sad one.
Chevassat, "if it were only to be agreeable to you, he would give one of his arms, this poor M. Maxime." Henrietta looked so peremptorily at her, that the worthy lady seemed to be quite disconcerted. "I forbid you," cried the young lady, with a voice trembling with indignation, "I forbid you positively ever to mention his name!" The woman shrugged her shoulders. "As you like it," she answered.
And I talked, and I ate, and I drank; I drank, perhaps, most; for I had not had anything to drink for a long time; and, finally, I was rather excited. Chevassat seemed to have unbuttoned, and told me lots of funny things which set me a-laughing heartily.
As soon as night falls, you will dress, and watch for the moment when the concierge, as usually, goes about the house lighting the gas. As soon as you see him on the great staircase; you will make haste and run down. I shall take measures to have the woman Chevassat either kept engaged, or out of the house; and you will thus find it easy to slip out without being perceived.
He certainly needed it; but how could he sleep with the fearful idea of his Henrietta she whom he loved with his whole heart being in the hands of this Justin Chevassat, a forger, a former galley-slave, the accomplice and friend of Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet? "And I myself handed her over to him!" he repeated for the thousandth time, "I, her only friend upon earth!
There was no misunderstanding the meaning of the word "oblige," from the manner in which he pronounced it; and yet he was about to enforce the recommendation, when a fretting voice exclaimed on the stairs, "Chevassat! where are you, Chevassat?" "It's my wife," said the concierge. And, delighted to get away, he said to Papa Ravinet
Crochard passed his hand repeatedly over his forehead; and then, his eyes staring at empty space, and his neck stretched out, as if he saw a phantom which he had suddenly called up, he said, "Chevassat is a man of my age; but he does not look more than twenty seven or eight. That is what made me hesitate at first, when I met him on the boulevard.
She could hardly keep up until she reached Water Street; and there fatigue, fright, and excitement made her forget her resolutions. She confessed her discomfiture to Mrs. Chevassat.
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