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"Husson de la Cerisaie; monsieur was born beneath the steps of the Imperial throne." Oscar colored crimson to the roots of his hair, and was penetrated through and through with a dreadful foreboding. They were now about to descend the steep hill of La Cave, at the foot of which, in a narrow valley, flanked by the forest of Saint-Martin, stands the magnificent chateau of Presles.
After Under Fire, by Henri Barbusse, L'Holocauste by Paul Husson and the poignant meditations of André Delemer gave expression to their touching and profoundly human cry.
I hate idiots, but I hate still more the men who will go wrong in spite of the fatherly care which watches over them." He gave Godeschal Mariette's letter and the five-hundred-franc note which she had sent. "You must excuse my having opened it," he said, "but your sister's maid told me it was on business. Dismiss Husson."
"Hey, hey! how this little fellow grows," he added, taking Oscar by the ear. "He has finished school, and he regretted so much that his dear uncle was not present at the distribution of the Henri IV. prizes, at which he was named. The name of Husson, which, let us hope, he will bear worthily, was proclaimed " "The deuce it was!" exclaimed the little old man, stopping short.
Then the mayor placed in one hand a silk purse in which gold tingled five hundred francs in gold! and in his other hand a savings bank book. And he said in a solemn tone: "Homage, glory and riches to virtue." Commandant Desbarres shouted "Bravo!" the grenadiers vociferated, and the crowd applauded. Mme. Husson wiped her eyes, in her turn.
Thus encouraged, Mme. Husson went to see the mayor. He approved heartily. "We will have a fine ceremony," he said. "And another year if we can find a girl as worthy as Isidore we will give the reward to her. It will even be a good example that we shall set to Nanterre. Let us not be exclusive; let us welcome all merit." Isidore, who had been told about this, blushed deeply and seemed happy.
"Budding diplomatists have so much else to take their minds," remarked Georges. "Be so good as to remember my name," replied Oscar, furious. "I am Oscar Husson, and ten years hence I shall be famous." After that speech, uttered with bombastic assumption, Oscar flung himself back in his corner. "Husson of what, of where?" asked Mistigris. "It is a great family," replied the count.
Thinking Madame Husson very rich, he feigned a great passion for her, and was simply saddled with the impossibility of satisfying either then or in the future the wants she had acquired in a life of opulence. He filled, very poorly, a place in the Treasury that gave him a salary of eighteen hundred francs; which was all the new household had to live on.
The neighbors had seen Isidore come home and had not seen him go out again. They began to look for him, but could not find him. His mother, in alarm, went to the mayor. The mayor knew nothing, except that he had left him at the door of his home. Mme. Husson had just retired when they informed her that her protege had disappeared.
This man, named Husson, became insane through his sudden fall from opulence to poverty; he flung himself into the Seine, leaving the beautiful Madame Husson pregnant. Moreau, very intimately allied with Madame Husson, was at that time condemned to death; he was unable therefore to marry the widow, being forced to leave France.
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