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His son was making a blunder, he said, and he, Sechard, had come to put a stop to it. "What was to become of the connection if David gave up the paper? It all depended upon the paper. All the attorneys and solicitors and men of business in L'Houmeau were Liberals to a man.
They were busy organizing resistance by lawful means throughout the provinces, and aiming at securing control of the great bulk of electors by convincing the masses. Petit-Claud, a rabid Liberal, and a man of L'Houmeau, was the instigator, the secret counselor, and the very life of this movement in the lower town, which groaned under the tyranny of the aristocrats at the upper end.
By the beginning of September, Lucien had ceased to be a printer's foreman; he was M. de Rubempre, housed sumptuously in comparison with his late quarters in the tumbledown attic with the dormer-window, where "young Chardon" had lived in L'Houmeau; he was not even a "man of L'Houmeau"; he lived in the heights of Angouleme, and dined four times a week with Mme. de Bargeton.
It need not be asked whether the Duc de Grandlieu's mansion, one of the finest in the Rue Saint-Dominique, did not exert a thousand spells over Lucien's imagination. Every time the heavy gate turned on its hinges to admit his cab, he experienced the gratified vanity to which Mirabeau confessed. "Though my father was a mere druggist at l'Houmeau, I may enter here!" This was his thought.
He had made up his mind that he would speak of himself; but now as he gave his arm to this beautiful girl, and they walked through L'Houmeau together, he could find nothing to say to her. Love delights in such reverent awe as redeemed souls know on beholding the glory of God. So, in silence, the two lovers went across the Bridge of Saint Anne, and followed the left bank of the Charente.
Petit-Claud muttered these words to himself as he passed by the hoardings, and heard a tap upon the boards, and a voice issuing from a crack between two planks. "Here I am," said Cerizet; "I saw David coming out of L'Houmeau. I was beginning to have my suspicions about his retreat, and now I am sure; and I know where to have him.
At ten o'clock the party began to break up, and little knots of guests went home together. David Sechard heard the unwonted music. "What is going on in L'Houmeau?" he asked of Basine. "They are giving a dinner to your brother-in-law, Lucien " "I know that he would feel sorry to miss me there," he said. At midnight Petit-Claud walked home with Lucien.
We work to put money into the coopers' pockets. Why, are you going to marry before the vintage? "I only came to ask for your consent, father." "Oh! that is another thing. And who is the victim, if one may ask?" "I am going to marry Mlle. Eve Chardon." "Who may she be? What kind of victual does she eat?" "She is the daughter of the late M. Chardon, the druggist in L'Houmeau."
For some time past the suburb of L'Houmeau had sprung up, a mushroom growth at the foot of the crag and along the river-side, where the direct road runs from Paris to Bordeaux. Everybody has heard of the great paper-mills of Angouleme, established perforce three hundred years ago on the Charente and its branch streams, where there was a sufficient fall of water.
"You were very silent as we came through L'Houmeau. Do you know, I felt quite uncomfortable " "You looked so beautiful, that I could not say anything," David answered candidly. "Then, just now I am not so beautiful?" inquired she.
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