, 1872-11-24
EUGENlE GRANDET;
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Scenes of Provincial Life.

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Scenes of Provincial Life.
Translated from the French Of DsBazzac for The CHI
eago Tribune.
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The next morning, Madame Grandet found her
daughter walking before breakfast, IN company
with Charles. The young man was still sad, as
an unfortunate person should be VINO mad de-
scended, 80 to speak, to the very depths OF nus
troubles, and who, while measuring the profund-
ity of the abyss in which he had fallen, had fully
appreciated the labors OF his future life.
MY father will not be back till dinner-tlme,
said Eugenie, seeing the disquietude apparent
on her mothers face.
It was easy to see in the behavior. on the face
Of Eugenie, and in the singular gentleness which
weakened her voice, an agreement OF thought
between her and her cousin. Their souls we're
passionately welded, perhaps before they had
really tested the strength OF the feelings by
which they Were united to one another. Charles
stayed in the sitting-room, and his melancholy
WAS respected there Each one OF the three
women had to keep busy. Grandet having neg
lected his affairs, quite large number OF per-
sons came; the slater, the plumber, the mason,
the terrace-makers, the carpenter, hedgers, and
farmers, ,-some to close the contracts relative to
repairs, others to pay rents or receive money.
Madame Grandet and Eugenie we're, there
fore, obliged to so and come, and to re-
ply to the endless speeches OF the work.
men and the country people. Nanon
shut up in her kitchen the rents which
we're paid in kind. She always awaited the Or
ders Of her master to know what was to be kept
for, the house or to be sold in market. The
custom Of the goodman WAS, like many country
gentlemen, to drink his bad wine and eat his
spoi1t fruits. About s o'clock in the evening,
Grandet returned from Anglers, having made
14,000 francs on his gold, and holding in big
portfolio royal bonds which drew him interest
until the day when he would have to pay for his
rentes. He had left Corviiller atAngerB to take
care of the; 1f-foundered horses, and bring
them back slowly, after they had good rest:
.f1 have come from Angera, my wife, j" said he;
Nanon called out to him from the kitchen:
"Have not you eaten anything since yester~
ANothing," replied the goodman:
Nanon brought in the soup pes sat arasens ms
family were eating. Father Grandet had not
even seen his nephew.
"Eat at your ease, Grandet, F" said the banker.
"We will talk. Do you know what gold is worth
At Angera, where they have gone. TO-. to get q 1t 1or
.s.Do not send any," replied the goodman,
"there is 8 plenty there now. We are too good
friends for me not to save you waste Of. time"
,."But gold is worth thirteen francs htty
nsay. was worth"
"Whsre the devil did any come from7'
az went to Anglers hast night, replied Grandet,
in q low voices
The banker started with annazement. Then
whispered congaEsation began between them,
duun1g. which des Graasins and Grandet fre-
quent1y looked at Charles. Doubtless, at that
moment when the old cooper told the banker to
buy him re7ste3 to the value Of = hundred thou
sand ny1es, dss Grassins again allowedan express
aea 9f s9 e efssRe Sa fo h GRsea m
starting for Paris, and, u you have any messages
RNone, sir. I am much obliged" replied
':Thank him better than that, my nephew. He
OF William 9randet."
lis there any hope Of that?" asked Charles.
"Whyl'' exclaimed the cooper, with we'll
fGgued pride, Are not you my nephew? Your
honor is oprs. Are not you called arsndes?" 1..,
him, grew pale, and left the room. Eugenie
looked At her father with admiration.
HWell, goodbye, my good des Grassins, yours
most deyotedly, and fnTeig1e me finely, those
people there, The two, diRlomstiats shook
the door; then, after having shut it, he return
ed, and said to Nanon, throwing himself into bis
arm-chnir, sGive me- some cordial But, too
much excited to stay still, he got up, looked at
the portrait Of Mr. de Ia Bertolliere, and began
to sing, taking That Nanon called dancing
steps:
"In the French Guards,
Ihad good papa."
Nanon, Madame Grandet, and Eugenie mutual
ly looked at one another IN silence The Joy OF
The vine-dresser always frightened them when it
In the first place, Father Grandet wanted to go
to bed early, and, when he wentto bed, all in
his house had to aleep, Just as, when Augustus
drank, Poland was drunk. Moreover, CHARLES,
master. Aa for Madame Grandet, she slept,
etc, drank, and walked, according to the wishes
OF her husband. Ne7ertheless, during the two
hours granted to digestion, the cooper, more
'facetious than he had ever been, said many Of Of
give the measure OF his mind. When he had
sWalloved his cordial, he looked up the glass. >.
:"One has no sooner put ones lips to aglass
than it is empty. Such ia our history. One can
not be, and have been. Money cannot circulate,
md @ atsy in yogF purse; il it could life would
He Was jovial and merciful. When Nanon
came with her spinning-wheel: "You muat be
tired" said he to her. 7Leave your hemp"
:"Whyl the time would pass heavily" replied
the servant.
:aPoor Nanon! will you have some cordial z"
"Oh!-: will not Say no to cordial;
Madame makes it much better than al1 the
apothecaries. What they sell is medicine:
@"They put too much sugar in it, and it has no
The ne1t day, the family. assembled OF
o'clock for breakfast presented the tableaQ Of