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But of this radiant existence not a gleam reached the surface of daily life; it escaped the ken of Dumay and his wife and the Latournelles; the ears of the blind mother alone caught the crackling of its flame.
"He might perish for the want of thirty thousand francs," Dumay remarked to Latournelle, who bought the little house at its full value, where an apartment was always kept ready for the inhabitants of the Chalet.
This silhouette of Madame Latournelle is quite important as an accessory, inasmuch as for three years she has been the chaperone of the young girl against whom the notary and his friend Dumay are now plotting to set up what we have called, in the "Physiologie du Mariage," a "mouse-trap."
Caumont, the chief clerk, declared that he was satisfied with this arrangement, but nevertheless the situation was difficult. If the king had given the order to confiscate the merchandise, then Dumay, whose visit to Canada was for the purpose of fur trading, would become the king of commerce in New France, and therefore he had nothing to lose in awaiting de Caën's arrival.
"Nothing else could make Dumay hurry himself." "Victory! victory!" cried the lieutenant as soon as he reached the garden gate. "Madame, the colonel has not been ill a moment; he is coming back coming back on the 'Mignon, a fine ship of his own, which together with its cargo is worth, he tells me, eight or nine hundred thousand francs.
"When a Breton girl sings," said Dumay gloomily, "the lover is not far off." "I will let you hear Modeste when she is improvising," said the mother, "and you shall judge for yourselves " "Poor girl!" said Madame Dumay, "If she only knew our anxiety she would be deeply distressed; she would tell us the truth, especially if she thought it would save Dumay."
Modeste began by securing the co-operation of Francoise Cochet, a maid taken from Havre and brought back again by poor Bettina, whom Madame Mignon and Madame Dumay now employed by the day, and who lived in Havre.
Modeste coldly took up her embroidery. "Madame may be right; I have been twice in Havre lately," replied La Briere, sitting down by Dumay. Canalis, charmed with Modeste's beauty, mistook the admiration she expressed, and flattered himself he had succeeded in producing his desired effects.
A sea-life and the active habits required by my business have kept me in good health. To tell you all this is the same as telling it to my two daughters and my dear wife. I trust that the wretched man who took away my Bettina deserted her when he heard of my ruin; and that I shall find the poor lost lamb at the Chalet. My three dear women and my Dumay!
"Give me back that letter, Monsieur Dumay," said Modeste, erecting herself like a lioness defending her cubs. "There it is, mademoiselle," he replied. Modeste put it into the bosom of her dress, and gave Dumay the one intended for her father.
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