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He retired calling me Monsieur le Comte; and all for two sous O fatherland of Brutus! The letter was from Lampron, who had forgotten to put a stamp on it. "MY DEAR FRIEND: "Madame Plumet, to whom I believe you have given no instructions so to do, is at present busying herself considerably about your affairs.
Then a sudden twilight seemed to have closed down on me, an infinite sadness swelled in my heart. I closed my eyes, and God forgive my weakness, but the tears came. "Hallo! What part do you intend me to play in all this?" said Lampron behind me. "'What part'?" "Yes. It's an odd notion to invite me to your trysting-place." "Trysting-place? I haven't one."
Now and again a metallic sound and a glimpse of columns and advertisements show that we are rushing through a station in a whirlwind of dust. A flash of light across our path is a tributary of the river. I am off, well on my way, and no one can stop me not Lampron, nor Counsellor Boule, nor yet Plum et. The dream of years is about to be realized.
There are some blunders that are lucky; but you can't tell which they are, and that's never any excuse for committing them." I could hardly get hold of Lampron for a moment in the crowd he so dislikes. He was more uncouth and more devoted than ever. "Well, are you happy?" he said. "Quite." "When you're less happy, come and see me." "We shall always be just as happy as we are now," said Jeanne.
"She will come, my dear sir; but I shall not be there to see her." "Are you going?" "I leave you to stalk your game; be patient, and do not forget to come and tell me the news this evening." "I promise." And Lampron vanished. The drawing was hung about midway between two doorways draped with curtains, that opened into the big galleries. I leaned against the woodwork of one of them, and waited.
He is nearly twenty years older than I. That explains his forbearance. Besides, between an artist like him and a dreamer like myself there is only the difference of handiwork. He translates his dreams. I waste mine; but both dream. Dear old Lampron! Kindly, stalwart heart! He has withstood that hardening of the moral and physical fibre which comes over so many men as they near their fortieth year.
After ten days of waiting, during which I have employed Lampron and M. Flamaran to intercede for me, turn and turn about; ten days passed in hovering between mortal anguish and extravagant hopes, during which I have formed, destroyed, taken up again and abandoned more plans than I ever made in all my life before, yesterday, at five o'clock, I got a note from M. Charnot, begging me to call upon him the same evening.
Go, Monsieur, you will find your daughter great names, fat purses, gold lace, long beards, swelling waistbands, reputations, pretensions, justified or not, everything, in short, in which he is poor; but him you will never find again! That is all I have to tell you." Lampron had become animated and spoke with heat. There was the slightest flash of anger in his eyes.
Among them are treasures beyond price; for Lampron is a genius whose only mistake is to live and act with modesty, so that as yet people only say that he has "immense talent." No painter or engraver of repute and he is both has served a more conscientious apprenticeship, or sets greater store on thoroughness in his art.
"It's at Lampron's house, in his mother's room, where Monsieur Charnot can go and see it if he likes." "My father does not know of its existence," she said, with a glance at the slumbering man of learning. "Has he not seen it?" "No, he would have made so much ado about nothing. So Monsieur Lampron has kept the sketch? I thought it had been sold long ago."
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