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Updated: May 11, 2025
As they left the theatre, Bricheteau looked at his watch; it was a quarter to eleven; they had thus ample time to take the steamer leaving, as the tide served, at midnight. But when the organist turned to make this remark to Sallenauve, who was behind him, he saw nothing of his man; the deputy had vanished!
"No, no; but come," returned Monsieur de Ronquerolles, "let us talk seriously. To my knowledge, this Monsieur de Sallenauve that is the name I think he has taken in exchange for Dorlange, which he himself called theatrical has done, within a short time, two fine actions.
He merely asked whether the assembly would think proper to spend its time in listening to a romantic story in which there was no scandal. But here comes Sallenauve himself; he tells me that the electoral college is formed in a manner that leaves little doubt of his election. I leave my pen to him, to tell you the romantic tale, already, I believe, interrupted on several occasions.
"Neither Monsieur de Sallenauve nor Monsieur Gaston takes that stoical view of it. In view of the headstrong nature of the woman, they fear some violence to herself, which, as we know, she once attempted. Or else they dread some evil adviser.
The mysterious father of the deputy, the so-called Marquis de Sallenauve, declared himself to be the last remaining scion of the family; but it seems that this woman produced papers in due form, which show her to be a Sallenauve in the direct line, and within the degree of parentage required to constitute her an heir."
"I am firmly convinced," resumed Sallenauve, "that if Danton had been born in a calm and peaceful epoch like our own, he would have shown himself, what in fact he was, a good father, a good husband, a warm and faithful friend, a man of kindly temper, who, by the force of his great talents, would have risen to some eminent place in the State and in society." "Yes, yes! bravo! very good!"
I was said to be your mistress; you had yourself to contradict that charge before the electoral college; you contradicted it, but you could not stop it." "And my esteem, for which you profess to care?" "I no longer want it. You did not love me when I wished for it; you shall not love me now that I no longer wish it." "Who knows?" exclaimed Sallenauve.
"I do not say that the evil is as deep as that," replied Sallenauve; "perhaps, after all, we are simply a faiseur, using the word, be it understood, in the sense of a meddler, one who wants to have his finger in everything." "Ah! monsieur, but suppose we are the ablest politician in the country."
As the marquis was preparing to read a voluminous memorandum refuting a chapter in Tallemant des Reaux' "Historiettes" which did not redound to the credit of the great house of Sallenauve, the wise organist remarked that it was time we dined, if we intended to keep an appointment already made for seven o'clock at the office of Maitre Achille Pigoult the notary.
As to the manoeuvring of the royal power against those principles, it was not for institutions to check it, but for men, customs, public opinion, rather than laws; and for himself, Sallenauve, he should ever stand in the breach as a living obstacle.
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