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First there must be my Mi-Carême my hour!" "Ah!" whispered the little Jacqueline, "your hour!" And who shall say what memories glinted through her quick brain what conjurings of the first waltz with M. Cartel at the Moulin de la Galette, and the last waltz at the Bal Tabarin, when she stepped through the tawdry doorway into her paradise? "Your hour! And where will it be spent madame?" "Ah!"
It was the 'Mi-Careme', and the crowds were pouring into the brightly lighted passage which leads to the dance ball, like water flowing through the open lock of a canal.
In the old days when the world was religious and people observed Lent, there was always Mi-Carême, was there not? Well, I have fasted, and now I must feast." They gazed at each other; the one aglow with anticipation, the other with curiosity. "You have sent for him at last?" "I have sent a telegram with these words: 'Meet me at midday on Tuesday in the Place de la Concorde.
How strange! it seemed as if many of their faces were familiar to me, I knew them well; but where, and how, my memory could not trace. Yes, now I could recall it: they were the frequenters of the old "Pension of the Rue de Mi-Carême," the same men I had seen in their day of adversity, bearing up with noble pride against the ills of fortune.
Neither he nor she had taken any steps to complete the rupture; and at the Mi-carême dance, given by the Siowa Hunt, Quarrier, who was M. F. H., took up the thread of their suspended intercourse as methodically and calmly as though it had never quivered to the breaking point.
Yet unquestionably there seemed no reserve towards me; on the contrary, each evinced a tone of frankness and cordiality which made me perfectly at ease, and well satisfied at the fortune which led me to the Rue Mi-Carême.
The mortar was scarcely dry when I was there in March; but you should have seen the mi-careme ball. The finest masquerade that was ever beheld in Europe. All Paris came in masks to see that magnificent spectacle. His Majesty allowed entrance to all and those who came were feasted at a banquet which only Rabelais could fairly describe.
The unaccustomed noise of wheels, as we went along, drew many to the doors to stare at us, and in the gathering groups I could mark the astonishment so rare a spectacle as a cabriolet afforded in these secluded parts. "Is this the Rue Mi-Carême?" said the driver to a boy, who stood gazing in perfect wonderment at our equipage. "Yes," muttered the child, "yes. Who are you come for now?"
Michu sold his farm at once to Beauvisage, a farmer at Bellache, but he was not to receive the money for twenty days. A month after the Marquis de Chargeboeuf's visit, Laurence, who had told her cousins of their buried fortune, proposed to them to take the day of the Mi-careme to disinter it.
One of his largest works is a concert waltz, "Mi-Carême," for two pianos, with elaborate and extended introduction and coda.
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