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The breeze still freshened: and when the vessel anchored in the port of St Pierre, there was not a single drop of water on board. But the coffee-plant was saved; the colony enriched by it; Desclieux's pledge redeemed; and, three months after, Louisa was his wife. 'What splendid trees! said Monsieur D'Ambly, as he was passing by a fine forest of oaks.
'I knew some years ago, said Monsieur D'Ambly, 'a very good, but rather obstinate man, of the name of De Marne. He had a quarrel with the director of a hospital established in a small town on one of his estates.
'No, said Monsieur D'Ambly smiling, 'it shall remain, provided you promise to remember, every time you look at it, that each tree in a forest is entitled to as much respect as your lime, and that in an assemblage of persons, whatever may be their denomination, each person's interest is of as much importance as your own.
'My son, said Monsieur D'Ambly, 'when you grow up, you will see even worse consequences arise from that want of reflection which makes us regardless of everything that does not come under our own observation, so that when objects are too great for us to see their details, we think nothing about them.
'Since we are on the subject of burning, said Monsieur D'Ambly, 'I think it would be well to cut down that young lime-tree on the lawn opposite the château; it grows too fast; and if it should spread much more, it would quite intercept our view; I will therefore cut it down for fuel. 'Oh, papa, exclaimed Eugene, 'that lime-tree that has grown so beautiful since last year!
"He is right," said Le Chapelier. "The thing has become unendurable, insufferable. Two days ago M. d'Ambly threatened Mirabeau with his cane before the whole Assembly. Yesterday M. de Faussigny leapt up and harangued his order by inviting murder. 'Why don't we fall on these scoundrels, sword in hand? he asked. Those were his very words: 'Why don't we fall on these scoundrels, sword in hand."
'I should be very sorry, now that I know it. 'You would, then, only spare those trees from the fire which have come under your own particular notice: this is too common a case. Would it give you more pleasure to see this one burning? said Monsieur D'Ambly, as he showed him another, divided into four enormous trunks, which shot from the same root. 'No, indeed. Look, it makes quite an arbour.
'Such, said Monsieur D'Ambly, 'will in two days more be the state of our lime-tree. 'Ah! cried Eugene, 'can you have the heart to say so? 'Why not? A lime is not more valuable than a poplar, or an oak; and you would like to see this whole forest in a blaze. 'Indeed, papa, that is a very different thing.
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