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Updated: June 5, 2025
As to accessories, in the first place, Madame Soudry was surrounded by the magnificent gifts accumulated by her late mistress, which the ex-Benedictine called "fructus belli."
Soudry, who had paid his addresses to Mademoiselle Cochet from the time he first came into the neighborhood, owned the finest house in Soulanges, an income of six thousand francs, and the prospect of a retiring pension whenever he should quit the service. As soon as Cochet became Madame Soudry she was treated with great consideration in the town.
Rigou very seldom came to Soulanges; everybody was in the habit of going to him, Lupin and Gaubertin, Soudry and Gendrin, so much were they afraid of him.
"Here I am!" cried Madame Vermut, coming into the room; "and without my re-active, for Vermut is so inactive in all that concerns me that I can't call him an active of any kind." "What the devil is that cursed old Rigou doing there?" said Soudry to Guerbet, as they saw the green chaise stop before the gate of the Tivoli. "He is one of those tiger-cats whose every step has an object."
The Comte de Soulanges, peer of France, selected to be the next marshal, and faithful to the Bourbons, knew that his forests and other property were all well-managed by the notary Lupin, and well-watched by Soudry. He was a patron of Gendrin's, having obtained his appointment as judge partly by the help of Monsieur de Ronquerolles.
"You think that's different," said Rigou, "but it comes to the same thing in the end. Well, my dear, you come to me and I'll send Annette here, and that will be the same thing and different too." "Old scamp, you'll make her ashamed," said Soudry. "Ha! gendarme; you want your field to yourself! Well, we all get our happiness where we can find it."
The words caused Rigou to give the little jump with which crafty natures recognize the craft of others. "The Shopman has another vice," he said; "he loves his wife; we might get hold of him that way." "We ought to find out how far she really influences him," said Madame Soudry. "There's the rub!" said Lupin.
"On my honor, Jeannette is as good as the ham," said Rigou. "If I hadn't an Annette I should want a Jeannette." "One is as good as the other," said the ex-gendarme, "for your Annette is fair and delicate. How is Madame Rigou, is she asleep?" added Soudry, roughly, to let Rigou see he understood his joke. "She wakes with the cock, but she goes to roost with the hens," replied Rigou.
"If," she said, "one could only get the Shopman to the fete at Soulanges, and throw some fine girl in his way who would turn his head, we could easily set his wife against him by letting her know that the son of an upholsterer has gone back to the style of his early loves." "Ah, my beauty!" said Soudry, "you have more sense in your head than the Prefecture of police in Paris."
Mademoiselle Laguerre was one day walking in the garden, when she overheard Tonsard, then a strapping fellow, say, "All I need to live on, and live happily, is an acre of land." Laughing with Mademoiselle Cochet signified so many things that Soudry, the fortunate gendarme mentioned in Blondet's letter, still looked askance at Tonsard after the lapse of nearly twenty-five years.
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