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'My words are plain enough, I think, observed M. de Véron, coolly tapping and opening his snuff-box from which he helped himself to a hearty pinch. 'You are discharged with one hundred francs, a month's salary in lieu of warning, in your pocket. You have now only to bring your accounts; they are correct, of course; I, finding them so, sign your livret, and there is an end of the matter.
There was Romieu the outline of a drunkard behind a Red spectre. There was Malitourne not a bad friend, coarse and sincere. There was Cuch , whose name caused hesitation amongst the ushers at the saloon doors. There was Suin a man able to furnish excellent counsel for bail actions. There was Dr. Veron who had on his cheek what the other men of the Elysée had in their hearts.
Sir! sir! gasped the terrified young man. 'You are, continued M. de Véron, 'entitled to a month's salary, in lieu of that period of notice one hundred francs, with which you may credit yourself in the cash account you will please to balance and bring me as quickly as possible. 'Sir! sir! again bewilderedly iterated the panic-stricken clerk, as he turned distractedly from father to son 'Sir!
The testimony of Dr. Véron, who was manager of the Grand Opera during the most of the composer's brilliant career, is of great interest, as illustrating this trait of Meyerbeer's composition. He tells us in his "Mémoires," before alluded to, that "Robert" was made and remade before its final production.
There could be no doubt, therefore, that the proud M. de Véron was an escaped forçat; and subsequent investigation, which was not, however, very strongly pressed, sufficiently proved that Jean Baptiste de Véron, the younger son of a high family, had in very early youth been addicted to wild courses; that he had gone to the colonies under a feigned name, to escape difficulties at home; and whilst at the Isle de Bourbon, had been convicted of premeditated homicide at a gaming-house, and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment with hard labour.
And so they started away, drawing from their common hoard, in order to hire and furnish the two rooms in the Rue Veron, and sharing everything together like old friends. In the early days it was really delicious. On Twelfth Night Mme Lerat and Louiset were the first to arrive.
Véron who publishes in his "Mémoires" the Morny-Maupas despatch, adds: "M. du Maupas sent to look for Victor Hugo at the house of his brother-in-law, M. Victor Foucher, Councillor to the Court of Cassation. He did not find him."
Hampshire has nothing so picturesque on this side of the New Forest. If Sir Veron and his brother are at Wimperfield this summer, we might make up a party and drive over to see the place. I know he would give us a hearty welcome. Ida was silent, but Aunt Betsy and her niece declared that it was a splendid idea of Brian's, and must certainly be carried out.
He shuffles along, bows his long and feeble spine, and his spirit and his strength exhausted, he approaches the porch of his house, where Madame Marcassin awaits him. The workmen manifest mistrust and even dislike towards me. Why? I don't know; but my good intentions have gradually got weary. One after another, sundry women have occupied my life. Antonia Véron was first.
Amongst artists and men of letters he was acknowledged as a writer of genuine worth and extensive acquirements. There is a proof of it in a letter addressed to him by M. Veron, editor of "L'Art," on merely guessing that Mr. Hamerton must be the writer of a criticism of his "Esthetique" in the "Saturday Review." "PARIS, 11 9bre, 1878.
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