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Updated: June 11, 2025
If the old man still retained some forms of decency in his manners to the duchess, Maximilien, unrestrained by his father, caused his mother many a grief. Consequently, Bertrand was incessantly on the watch to prevent Maximilien from seeing Etienne, whose existence was carefully concealed. Etienne's future was therefore doubtful; he might even be persecuted by his own brother!
As I stole across the room to see, Mlle. de Tavanne detached herself from the group and glided unnoticed out of the door. It was thirty feet to the stones below sure death that way. But she had given us a respite; something might yet be done. I seized M. Étienne's arm in a grip that should tell him how serious was our pass.
When she left the room, Claude's and Etienne's gentle laughter alone disturbed the great silence beneath the blackened ceiling. It was ten o'clock. A ray of sunshine entered by the half open window. On the Boulevard, Gervaise turned to the left, and followed the Rue Neuve de la Goutte-d'Or. As she passed Madame Fauconnier's shop, she slightly bowed her head.
Nevertheless, in spite of the tonsure imposed by the will of the father, she was determined that Etienne's education should not be wholly ecclesiastical, and took pains to secularize it.
Before long, her jealousy put weapons into Lousteau's hands. During the carnival of 1840, she disguised herself to go to the balls at the Opera-house, and to suppers where she met courtesans, in order to keep an eye on all Etienne's amusements. On the day of Mid-Lent or rather, at eight on the morning after Dinah came home from the ball in her fancy dress to go to bed.
She buried her face in her hands and sobbed convulsively. The children were silent, awed and subdued tired out, too. Only Etienne's dark eyes were fixed upon his sister with a look of mute reproach. Lebel had made no attempt to interrupt the flow of his colleague's dictation. Only once or twice did a hastily smothered "What the !" of astonishment escape his lips.
Yes, sir, yes, Madame," and threw herself into the arms first of the American, and then of Mother Etienne, who still remained obdurate. Miss Booum, taking Mother Etienne's hand, said coaxingly: "You can safely trust her to me. I will take care of her myself, Madame. With us she will become famous throughout the world. All the newspapers will speak of her.
"Etienne," whispered the young man, deep resolve thrilling him, his eyes blazing into the wondering gaze of the old man, "those men who sit behind those desks can do something to save the children and the poor folks in the tenements. But they must wake up, these men here must. You and I must try to wake them up!" Etienne's eyes opened wide. He did not in the least comprehend how he could serve.
He behaves himself well, he's beginning to get some strength in his wrists." "Well!" she said, "it isn't easy to find your way here. I thought I was going to the end of the world." After telling about her journey, she asked why no one in the shop knew Etienne's name.
Etienne's time had come. He and the chiefs who were in the secret gave the word to the Huron warriors, who, at a signal, raised the war-whoop, rushed upon their visitors, and cut them to pieces. One of them, who lingered for a time, owned before he died that Etienne's suspicions were just, and that they had designed nothing less than the massacre or capture of all the Hurons.
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