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Updated: May 8, 2025
Christophe was dreaming: scraps of music were floating in his mind, mingled with the harmonious humming of insects. He was very sleepy. The wheels of another carriage crunched over the gravel of the drive. Christophe saw Lucien Levy-Coeur's pale face, with its inevitable smile: and his anger leaped up in him. He got up, and Barth followed him.
Christophe barely responded, but was annoyed by the eagerness and the exaggerated politeness with which they treated Levy-Coeur's seconds. Jullien knew Emmanuel, and Goujart knew Mouey, and they approached them obsequiously smiling. Mouey greeted them with cold politeness and Emmanuel jocularly and without ceremony.
He had hardly said it than he became conscious of his rudeness; but, instead of making him more restrained, it only excited him the more. He paid no heed to the amused attention of his auditors, but went and sat in a corner of the room from which he could follow Lucien Levy-Coeur's movements.
She held the balance evenly between her two friends. She appreciated Christophe's talent and moral superiority: but she also appreciated Lucien Levy-Coeur's amusing immorality and wit: and, at bottom, she found more pleasure in it. Christophe did not mince his protestations: she listened to him with a touching humility which disarmed him.
After conferring with Lucien Levy-Coeur's witnesses, pistols were chosen. Christophe was absolutely ignorant about the use of arms, and Goujart told him it would not be a bad thing for him to go and have a few lessons: but Christophe refused, and while he was waiting for the day to come went on with his work. But his mind was distracted.
Christophe had met him before at the literary dinner, to which he was taken by Sylvain Kohn: and though they had not spoken to each other, the sound of Levy-Coeur's voice had been enough to rouse a dislike which he could not explain, and he was not to discover the reason for it until much later.
"I'm damned if I ever set foot in your house again!" said Christophe, breaking free: and he reached the door. The people prudently made way for him. In the cloak-room a servant held out a salver. It contained Lucien Levy-Coeur's card.
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