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"He did not love the Queen," said the priest. "HE only loved the Abbe de Vermont." "Must I leave desolation behind me?" "I have money, you shall draw on me." "I would do a great deal just now to rescue David Sechard," said Lucien, in the tone of one who has given up all idea of suicide. "Say but one word, my son, and by to-morrow morning he shall have money enough to set him free." "What!
On the 18th the judgment took the practical shape of an order to pay capital, interest, and costs, followed up by notice of an execution for the morrow. Upon this Petit-Claud intervened and put in a claim for the furniture as the wife's property duly separated from her husband's; and what was more, Petit-Claud produced Sechard senior upon the scene of action.
"That little woman has a head on her shoulders," they said. "It is time that we took her business under our own control, by giving her enough work to live upon; we might find a real competitor in David's successor; it is in our interest to keep an eye upon that workshop." The Cointets went to speak to David Sechard, moved thereto by this thought.
In 1795, when the squall of the Terror had passed over, Nicolas Sechard was obliged to look out for another jack-of-all-trades to be compositor, reader, and foreman in one; and an Abbe who declined the oath succeeded the Comte de Maucombe as soon as the First Consul restored public worship.
"Talk of sending a boy to Paris to learn his trade!" said a provincial oracle. "M. le Cure, what brings you here, eh?" exclaimed old Sechard, catching sight of the Abbe as soon as he appeared. "I have come on account of your family," answered the old man. "Here is another of my son's notions!" exclaimed old Sechard.
"But Mademoiselle de Grandlieu worships him," said the Comtesse de Montcornet; "and with the young person's assistance, he may perhaps make better terms." "And what will he do with his sister and brother-in-law at Angouleme?" asked the Chevalier d'Espard. "Well, his sister is rich," replied Rastignac, "and he now speaks of her as Madame Sechard de Marsac."
His hopes were dashed to the ground. "If Mme. de Bargeton consents to be Mme. de Rubempre, she would never care to have David Sechard for a brother-in-law!" This stated clearly and precisely was the thought that tortured Lucien's inmost mind. "Louise is right!" he thought bitterly. "A man with a career before him is never understood by his family."
Then one evening when David came in from a country excursion, followed by an old woman with a huge bundle tied up in a cloth, Eve asked counsel of him as to the best way of turning to profit the odds and ends left them by old Sechard, promising that she herself would look after the business. Acting upon her husband's advice, Mme.
Sechard," voices said here and there. "I should never have believed it of her," said a woman. "The husband is in hiding, and the wife walks abroad," said Mme. Postel for young Mme. Sechard's benefit. "Oh, let us go home," said poor Eve; "I have made a mistake." A few minutes before sunset, the sound of a crowd rose from the steps that lead down to L'Houmeau.
His thoughts went back to the banks of his Charente; a craving for happiness and home awoke in him; and with the craving, came one of the sudden febrile bursts of energy which half-feminine natures like his mistake for strength. He would not give up until he had poured out his heart to David Sechard, and taken counsel of the three good angels still left to him on earth.
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