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Updated: June 7, 2025
That very morning, the woman Chevassat had told them, no doubt, 'She'll do it to-night! And that evening, Sarah, Mrs. Brian, and M. Elgin asked, no doubt, full of hope, 'Is it all over?" Immovable, and white as marble, her eyes dilated beyond measure, and her lips half-open, poor Henrietta listened.
"It was several years before this, that Justin Chevassat, released from the galleys, had made a nobleman of himself, and claimed before all the world to be Maxime de Brevan.
He poured some brandy into two small wineglasses, put a teakettle on the fire, and sank into an arm-chair; then he said, "Well, M. Chevassat, what a terrible thing this is!" His visitor had been well drilled by his wife, and said neither yes nor no; but the old merchant was a man of experience, and knew how to loosen his tongue.
"'Since that is so, he said, 'you shall see what a comrade is. I ought to say that the cab had been going all the time we were talking, and that we were out in the suburbs now. My Chevassat raised the blind to look out; and, as soon as he saw a clothing store, he ordered the driver to stop there.
"As to that," he resumed his account, "you see Chevassat explained to me everything at breakfast; and the very same day he gave me the address which you found on the paper in which the bank-notes were wrapped up." "What did he give you M. Champcey's address for?" "So that I might know him personally." "Well, go on."
So you did not know that M. Maxime no longer came to see Miss Henrietta?" "He still came to see her." In the most natural manner in the world, Papa Ravinet raised his arms to heaven, and exclaimed as if horror-struck, "What! is it possible? That handsome young man knew how the poor girl suffered? he knew that she was dying of hunger?" Master Chevassat became more and more troubled.
He said he could not possibly receive his friends in a house where his name was to be seen on the signboard of such a low establishment. "It was his despair to be the son of a restaurant-keeper, and to be called Chevassat. "But greater grief was to come to him after two years' idle and expensive life such as has been described.
The steps of all these people were heard all over the house; and from story to story the lodgers opened their doors to see what was going on. And, when they heard that something was likely to happen, they almost all left their rooms, and followed the others. So that Master Chevassat had nearly a dozen curious persons behind him, when he stopped on the fifth floor to take breath.
"That sum is very far from those fabulous amounts by which you said you had been blinded and carried away." "Pardon me! There was that share in the great fortune." "Ah! You knew very well that Chevassat would never have paid you anything." Crochard's hands twitched nervously. He cried out, "Chevassat cheat me! cochonnere! I would have but no; he knows me; he would never have dared"
And then, what immorality in a banker to speculate on 'Change, and thus to set so bad an example to his young, inexperienced clerks! "Justin Chevassat escaped with twenty years' penal servitude. "What he was at the galleys, you may imagine from what you know of him.
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