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At first we were informed that there could be no departure from the plan of sending us out of France by way of Epernay, Reims, and Sedan, and this by no means coincided with the desires of most of the Englishmen who had come out of Paris, they wishing to proceed westward, and secure a passage across the Channel from Le Havre or Dieppe.
"The lines are here." He moved the pencil to the northwest of Epernay, where the heavy black lines indicating the front crossed the Marne. "Notice that the lines swing southwest through Comblizy and la Chapelle, then northwest again, back to the Marne, and on to Chateau-Thierry. To-morrow we are to go here." He circled a spot just south of La Ferte sous Jouarre.
He was followed by his wife and daughter-in-law, two brawny peasant women, who were loudly lamenting the departure of their steed! "No, no!" literally howled mother Poupard. "This is the last straw! Both sons gone, and now our horse! Who's going to bring in our crop? The Lord is unjust." "And brother's babies poor motherless things in an orphan asylum at Epernay! How can we get to them now?
Yonder in the fore part of the craft I espy certain vessels of glass on which is the label of Epernay. And of such is peace. Drifting ever downwards, I approached the creek where my skiff had to be left; but before I reached it a "beach-comber," with a coil of cord over his shoulder, asked me if he should tow me "up to 'Ampton."
I was alert as a lark when I entered: I came out in a species of voluptuous dream. All the band conducted me to the railway-station, and I was very much touched with the attention. "Take this shawl: the night will be chilly before you get to the city." "Don't let them carry you beyond Noisy." "Come back to Épernay every May-day: never forget the feast of Saint Athanasius."
At Épernay, though a menacing crowd surrounded the carriage as they dismounted, the commanding officer took up the dauphin in his arms to carry him in safety to the door of the hotel; comforting the queen at the same time with a loyal whisper well suited to her feelings, "Despise this clamor, madame; there is a God above all."
I there found mention of a Rougon family and a Macquart family dwelling virtually side by side in the same village. This, however, was in Champagne, not in Provence. Both families farmed vineyards for a once famous abbey in the vicinity of Epernay, early in the seventeenth century. To me, personally, this trivial discovery meant a great deal.
French joviality gaiety and gravity, all in one never injures business; quite the contrary. Men who quaff the sparkling cup are born to understand each other. Come, another glass of champagne! it is good, I tell you! It was sent to me from Epernay itself, by a man for whom I once sold quantities at a good price I used to be in wines.
I was greatly mystified at discovering the first tenor voice of Épernay in an aged man; but the catechism now commencing, I thought only of listening.
The city of Épernay offers little remarkable except its Rue du Commerce, flanked with enormous buildings, and its church, conspicuous only for a flourishing portal in the style of Louis XIV., in perfect contradiction to the general architecture of the old sanctuary.
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