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"Well, then, start and make haste," commanded M. Seneschal. "We shall overtake you on the way: M. Daubigeon and I are going to pick up M. Galpin, the magistrate." They had not far to go. The magistrate had already been looking for them all over town: he was just appearing on the Square, and saw them at once.
This woman was a big country-girl, plain of face, and square of figure. She seemed to be very much excited, and looked crimson in her face. "Do you remember," asked M. Daubigeon, "that one night last week a man came to your house, and asked to see your mistress?" "Oh, yes!" replied the honest girl. "I did not want to let him in at first; but he said he came from the court, and then I let him in."
Pushing M. Folgat violently back as he tried to disarm him, Cocoleu leaped into a corner of the court, and there, looking like a wild beast driven to bay, his eyes bloodshot, his mouth foaming, he threatened with his formidable knife to kill any one who should come near him. At the cries of M. Daubigeon and M. Galpin, the assistants in the hospital came rushing in.
"Well," said M. Daubigeon, "'the opinions of men are more fickle and changeable than the waves of the sea." But, interrupting the quotation, M. Galpin asked his clerk, "Well, what else?" "I went to hand M. Gransiere the letter which you gave me for him" "What did he say?" "I found him in consultation with the president, M. Domini.
How could all these circumstances have agreed so precisely if they had not been pre-arranged, and calculated beforehand? Our poor M. Daubigeon had tears in his eyes; and even that meddlesome fellow, Mechinet, the clerk, was quite overcome. M. Galpin was the only one who looked pleased; but then he was the magistrate, and he put the questions.
You come to join me at breakfast?" And, bowing to M. Daubigeon, he added, "Not to say how much I thank you for bringing our excellent commonwealth attorney with you. This is a veritable judicial visit" But he paused, chilled as he was by M. Daubigeon's icy face, and amazed at M. Galpin's refusal to take his proffered hand. "Why," he said, "what is the matter, my dear friend?"
Seignebos; the witnesses for the bride, M. Folgat and M. Daubigeon. Even the excellent commonwealth attorney laid aside on that day some of his usual gravity. He continually repeated, "Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus." And he really did drink his glass of wine, and opened the ball with the bride. M. Galpin, who was sent to Algiers, was not present at the wedding.
"Day before yesterday he did not look upon me as the cause of a great misfortune for him." M. Mechinet went on quite eagerly, "After leaving M. Gransiere, I went to the court-house, and there I head the great piece of news which has set all the town agog. Count Claudieuse is dead." M. Daubigeon and M. Galpin looked at each other, and exclaimed in the same breath, "Great God! Is that so?"
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