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He saw that Mr. Goulden had resolved to settle the question on financial principles only. As the chances diminished of securing him indirectly through Laura as a prop to his tottering fortunes, he at last came to the conclusion to try to interest him directly in his speculation, feeling sure if he could control only a part of Mr.
Running along the cemetery, where the crosses and gravestones glistened in the snow, I said to myself: "Those who sleep there are no longer cold!" I drew my cloak over my breast, and hid my nose in the fur collar, thanking Monsieur Goulden for his lucky thought.
In the evening, however, when Aunt Grédel had gone, and we three were together, Catherine said quietly, "M. Goulden is right; he knows more about these things than my mother does, and we will always listen to his advice." I thought to myself, "Yes, that's all very well; but it will be a horrible thing to have to put on one's knapsack again and be off.
The next day we learned that he was carried to the hospital and would recover. From that day until the month of September they often sang the Te Deum, and fired twenty-one guns for new victories. It was nearly always in the morning, and Monsieur Goulden cried: "Eh, Joseph! Another battle won! Fifty thousand men lost! Twenty-five standards, a hundred guns won. All goes well, all goes well.
Now, friends, let us go and take the air, it is late, and Madame Grédel and Catherine have a long way to go to Quatre Vents. Joseph will go with them." "No," said Catherine, "Joseph must stay with his friend to-day, and we will go home alone." "Very well! so be it! on a day like this friends should be together," said Mr. Goulden.
She laid the table in the twilight, and then I took her hand, and made her sit down on my knee, and we remained so for half an hour. Then Mr. Goulden asked: "Is not Zébédé coming?" "No, he cannot come." "Well! let us take our supper then." But no one was hungry. Catherine removed the table about nine o'clock, and we all retired. It was the most terrible night I ever passed in my life.
Goulden, who plumed himself that he would slip out of this bad matrimonial speculation with such polished skill that he would leave only flattering regret and sighs behind, under the biting satire of Laura's words suddenly saw what a contemptible creature is the man whom selfish policy, rather than honor and principle, governs.
Behind us the hall was already empty. Everybody had hurried out by the brewer Klein's alley for fear of being mixed up in a disagreeable affair, and we went that way also. As we crossed the square, Father Goulden said, "There is danger that matters will take a bad turn.
If he were here, I would embrace him and invite him to the wedding; he should have the place of honor next Mr. Goulden."
She ran into the kitchen and commenced bustling among the kettles to prepare something to regale us with, while Mr. Goulden placed his cane in a corner and hung his great hat upon it, and sat down with an air of contentment near the hearth. "What fine weather!" he exclaimed, "how green and flourishing everything is!
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