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Updated: September 11, 2025
Madame de l'Estorade looked at her friend, as if to consult her. "He is that organist who was so useful to Monsieur de Sallenauve during the election. I don't know what he can want of me." "Never mind," said Madame de Camps, "receive him. Before beginning hostilities it is always well to know what is going on in the enemy's camp." "Show him in," said the countess. Jacques Bricheteau entered.
"Well," said Sallenauve, carelessly, "then I shall have a few hours longer to play truant." "But during that time your enemies are tunnelling their mine." "I don't care. In that cave called political life one has to be ready for anything." "I thought as much!" exclaimed Bricheteau. "You have been to see Luigia; her success has turned your head, and the deputy is thinking of his statues."
Approaching in this manner that problematical science which is, nevertheless, so sure of itself! called political economy, Sallenauve had also studied the sources which contribute to form the great current of national prosperity; and in this connection the subject of mines, the topic at this moment most interesting to Monsieur de Camps, had not been neglected by him.
As soon as Sallenauve was alone with the organist, he inquired the reason that led him to follow him; and he heard, with some emotion, the news of the intrigues which Maxime de Trailles had apparently organized against him. Returning to his original suspicions, he said to Jacques Bricheteau,
Besides, to go over to the enemy is to make a choice, and that supposes an operation of the mind; it is much easier to be obstinate." "I agree with the minister," said Sallenauve; "extreme innocence and extreme rascality are equally able to defend themselves against seduction." Here Monsieur de l'Estorade, seeing, or pretending to see, a signal made to him, looked over his shoulder and said,
"Was she as ignorant of the existence of the Marquis de Sallenauve as the marquis seems to have been of hers?" asked Rastignac. "That does not clearly appear from what she says," replied the attorney-general; "but it might so happen among relations so curiously placed."
Before his parliamentary attempt, he made, as you doubtless know, a matrimonial attempt upon the Lantys, which ended in the beautiful heiress of that family, into whose good graces he had insinuated himself, being sent to a convent." Madame de l'Estorade was not much surprised at finding that this history, which Sallenauve had told her as very secret, had reached the knowledge of Madame d'Espard.
I am told that the rectors of the two parishes in Arcis have each received a thousand crowns for their poor from Mother Marie-des-Anges, who informed them that it came from a benefactor who did not wish his name known. Sallenauve is furious because our partisans are going about saying that the money came from him.
The name alone was enough to attract the attention of both travellers; but the newspapers to which they had recourse for further information furnished, as is customary in England, so many circumstantial details about the prima donna that Sallenauve could no longer doubt the transformation of his late housekeeper into an operatic star of the first magnitude.
A hint from certain quarters given to the ministerial journals now began to surround Sallenauve's name with an atmosphere of disrespect and ridicule; insulting insinuations colored his absence with an appearance of escaping the charges. The effect of these attacks was all the greater because Sallenauve was very weakly defended by his political co-religionists, which was scarcely surprising.
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