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Eh! no! the intentionally cold bearing of the minister decidedly discomposed him. Vaudrey's glance never wandered from his for a moment. When the promoter pronounced the word Bourse, a disdainful curl played upon Sulpice's lips, but not a word escaped him. Molina heard his own voice break the silence of the ministerial cabinet and he felt himself entangled.
"Marianne, I entreat you, if you have any sorrow whatever, that I can assuage, I pray you, tell me of it!" "Eh! if it were a sorrow! " she said, quickly withdrawing her left hand from Sulpice's warm grasp. "But it is worse: it is a financial worry, yes, financial," she said brusquely, on observing that Vaudrey's face depicted astonishment.
Emerging from his semi-obscurity into the sunshine of success, he would at last show the world what he was and what he could do. Power! To command! To create! To impress his ideas upon a whole nation! To have succeeded! succeeded! succeeded! Sulpice's dreams were realized at last.
"I know that very well," the young wife replied. Like a child who is anxious to go to sleep, she gently rested her hood-covered head on Sulpice's shoulder.
"You ask for the truth Listen a moment, a single moment," Ramel whispered in the ear of the minister. Without mentioning Sulpice's name, he began to question Garnier, who grew bolder and talked and gossiped, his cheek-bones now and then heightened in color by small, pink spots. "Well! Garnier, about the work? Oh! you may speak before monsieur, it interests him."
Yes, where? Through Molina, who offered him two hundred thousand! This open credit seemed to him like an opened-up placer in which he had only to dig with his nails. The cunning and thick voice of the Hebrew banker echoed in Sulpice's ears: "They all do it!" It was not so difficult to give his name, or to hire it, as Salomon said.
She was quite pale as she looked over Sulpice's shoulder and saw him rapidly write several lines on the paper, then she spelled: "Adolphe Gochard Go-go-ch-a-r-d."
Politics drew him away from his wife so frequently, and for so long a time, that she was already compelled to live in such solitude that the secluded creature wondered if in future she would not be condemned to still greater isolation. But all anxiety disappeared under the influence of Sulpice's manifest joy. He was feverishly impatient.
The wife of a minister must bear her part of the burden, since there must be a burden. As if Adrienne had divined Sulpice's very thoughts, she quickly added, interrupting the jester who had somewhat confused the minister: "Don't pay any attention to Monsieur de Lissac. I am very happy just as I am." Vaudrey had taken her hand to clasp it between his fingers with a slightly nervous grasp.
She dared not go to hear him, but knowing that he was to speak, she had not the courage to remain at home. Anxiously she ascended to the public gallery. She shuddered and was almost ready to faint, when she heard the voice of the president break what seemed to her an icy silence, with the words: Monsieur Vaudrey has the ear of the Assembly. The sound of Sulpice's voice seemed changed to her.
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