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Thereupon Soudry cleaned up his house and restored its primitive lustre, not a little dimmed by the stabling of horses and the occupancy of gendarmes. The house, only one story high, with projecting windows in the roof, has a view on three sides; one to the square, another to a lake, the third to a garden.
"The husband of his daughter and his sons may go to law, and end by selling the lead and iron mines to manufacturers, from whom we shall manage to get them back." The chateau just then showed up in profile, as if to defy the ex-monk. "Ah! look at it; in those days they built well," cried Soudry.
"I knew he would find some pretty girl at Socquard's, there he is, putting her into his carriage." "You are quite wrong, gentlemen," said Madame Soudry; "Monsieur Rigou is thinking of nothing but the great affair; and if I'm not mistaken, that girl is only Tonsard's daughter." "He is like the chemist who lays in a stock of vipers," said old Guerbet.
A quarter of an hour later Soudry, in his best clothes, got into the wicker carriage, and the two friends drove round the lake of Soulanges to Ville-aux-Fayes. "Look at it!" said Rigou, as they reached an eminence from which the chateau of Soulanges could be seen in profile.
Under these circumstances the letter which Madame Soudry hastily dispatched brought Sibilet to Soulanges through a region of castles in the air. His father-in-law, Sarcus, whom the Soudrys advised to take steps in the interest of his daughter, had gone in the morning to see the general and to propose Adolphe for the vacant post.
"The general!" cried Madame Vermut, "he won't interfere with things; he plays his part." "What part, my dear?" asked Madame Soudry. "Oh! the paternal part." "If poor little Pigeron had had the wisdom to play it, instead of harassing his wife, he'd be alive now," said the poet.
By a phenomenon not in the least rare, which the vanity of mothers and authors carries on at all moments under our very eyes in behalf of their literary works or their marriageable daughters, the late Mademoiselle Cochet was, at the end of seven years, so completely buried under Madame Soudry, the mayoress, that she not only did not remember her past, but she actually believed herself a well-bred woman.
Country life influences the manners and morals of the smaller places, and this mixture of tints will be found to produce some truly original characters. The most important personage after Madame Soudry was Lupin, the notary. Though forty-five springs had bloomed for Lupin, he was still fresh and rosy, thanks to the plumpness which fills out the skin of sedentary persons; and he still sang ballads.
The house of Madame Soudry for the powerful individuality of Mademoiselle Laguerre's former waiting-maid took the lead of her husband in the community was modern, having been built by a rich wine-merchant, born in Soulanges, who, after making his money in Paris, returned there in 1793 to buy wheat for his native town.
When the sub-prefect was invited, and when the postmaster of Conches arrived to take pot-luck, Soulanges enjoyed the sight of four official equipages drawn up at the door of the Soudry mansion.
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