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Strange yet true! all these illusions became realities, and spread even to the actual regions of the heart; Madame Soudry reigned supreme, in a way, over her husband. The gendarme, required to love a woman ten years older than himself who kept the management of her fortune in her own hands, behaved to her in the spirit of the ideas she had ended by adopting about her beauty.
Madame Gaubertin played the role of elegance with great effect; she assumed little airs and was lackadaisical at forty-five years of age, as though certain of the homage of her court. We ask those who really know France, if these houses those of Rigou, Soudry, and Gaubertin are not a perfect presentation of the village, the little town, and the seat of a sub-prefecture?
Just as Rigou and Soudry were on their way back to Blangy, the count and countess, Emile Blondet, the lieutenant of gendarmerie, the sergeant, and the mayor of Conches were finishing their breakfast in the splendid dining-room where Bouret's luxury had left the delightful traces already described by Blondet in his letter to Nathan.
"Ha!" cried Soudry, when his wife reported this news, "does he think he is going to lead the notary by the nose, and upset everything to please himself and make the whole valley march in line, as he did his cuirassiers? These military fellows have a habit of command! but let's have patience; Monsieur de Soulanges and Monsieur de Ronquerolles will be on our side.
"If any one can force the Shopman to come to the fair, and manage to catch him in a trap, it'll be Rigou," said Soudry to his wife, in a low tone. "Especially," she replied, in a loud one, "if Gaubertin and you, my love, help him." "There! didn't I tell you so?" cried Guerbet, poking the justice of the peace.
"We'll each take what we like best. I, for one, shall stand in nobody's way; I'll take the woods in common with Soudry and my son-in-law; the timber has been so injured that you won't care for it now, and you may have all the rest. Faith, it is worth the money you'll put into it!" "Will you sign that agreement?" said Soudry. "A written agreement is worth nothing," replied Gaubertin.
The latter, though suspecting the plan formed by Gaubertin, Lupin, and Soudry, refrained from informing the lawyer in Paris, for the reason that if the new owners indiscreetly repeated his words, he would have too many enemies at his heels to be able to stay where he was. This reticence, peculiar to provincials, was in this particular case amply justified by succeeding events.
The peasants are all right; their hatred against the abbe keeps up; but we can do nothing as yet. He's like Michaud, in his way; such men are too good for this world, God ought to call them to himself." "It would be a good plan to find some pretty servant-girl to scrub his staircase," remarked Madame Soudry.
"I shouldn't be surprised if there were treasure buried in those cellars," observed Rigou, cleverly. "Nonsense!" The Comtesse de Moret received the property from Henri IV. when it was confiscated." "See what it is to know the history of France!" said Soudry. "You are right. It is time to come to an understanding with Gaubertin." "If he shirks," said Rigou, "we must smoke him out."
On the side toward the square the house is entered from a portico raised several steps above the level of the street. According to the custom of small towns the gate of the courtyard, used only for the service of the house or for any unusual arrival, was seldom opened. Visitors, who mostly came on foot, entered by the portico. The style of the Hotel Soudry is plain.
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