, 1872-10-27
EUGENE GRANDET;
Scenes of Provincial Life,
Translated from the French Of De Bulzae, for Ihs
Chicago Tribune.


Chicago Tribune.
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| Father Grandet having no more orders t,
give, pulled out his watch, and, seeing that h,
had half an hour at his disposal before break
fast, took his hat, kissed his daughter, and said
ssDo Won want to take 8 walk along the Loire, il
my meadows? have something to attend tt
there --
Eugenie put on her hat Of sewed straw, linee
with rose taffetra; then the father ant
daughter walked down tho winding street to tht
square.
"Where are you going 80 early Z" said the
notary Cruchot, who met Grandet.
"To see something" said the good man, wht
was not deceived by the early walk Of his friend
When Father Grandet went to SEQ something
the notary knew by experience that there wa:
always some profitable operation concerned. So
lie accompanied him.
sCome, Cruchot,'' said Grandet to the no.
tary; s:you are friend Of mine. I am going
to prove to you what q folly it is to plant pop
lars on rich land.'
"Do you count for nothing the sixty thousand
francs you handled for these in your meadows
on the Loire?' said Cruchot, opening his heavy
eyes. 'sN1hat luck you had! To fell your trees
ct the very moment when white wood was IN
demand at Nantes, and to sell them at thirty
francs each!" -.
Eugenie listened, not knowing that ahe was
On the verge OF me most so,an hu on'eIs VI t nos
declaration OF q paternal and sovereign decree
concerning her. Grandet had reached the mag
niGcent meadows he owned on the Loire, where
thirty 1aborers we're busted in cleaning off, I'LL
ing up, ana loFeiln6 tne g1oono ouce oecupleo
ny Lne popiafs. 10y. --
poplar taxes up, sala ne 70 Ine notAry. ;1,' ~
called ous 70 q notAlhan ;, oal11' 4aeasu&e MILL
your stick all sades around.
four ta1nes el51t 1ee'' sa1o 'ue laooref'
#hen a ne nad nn1shea:
eight ieet los5 sald t-e Grandet to Crn
thirty-two feet took up i've hundred feet Of
grass land add twice as much On the sides,
fifteen hundred, and the middle rows as much.
so set down q thousand oundle5 OF nay.
''WeH y said Cruchot, to help on his friend, "a
Thousand bundles OF this hay are worth about
Biz hundred francs"
Say twelve hundred, on account OF the
three or four hnnaIed francs Tor the rowan.
We figure up what tweiye ,s n'e hundred francs
compound interest, you KNOW.
'sCal 1t sixty thousand francs" said the
notary. .-.---...
:, very good! supposlnG IL MAKES only s1ty
Thousand francs. Two thousanu poplars IN
forty years WILL not brln9 me 1lty tnousand
francs. It is losing business. have " worked
thnI OIL, said tfanoeLh q Pfouo IONS. Jonn,
sad ne; you VAL M up the holees,
except those along me Lore, "ne1o you VIII
plant lne popiars nave poo8nt. ny sestlnB
pense o. tue GoVernment, ADDED ne, turning TO
C!ucnot, anu giving 70 the wen On nls nose q
Slight mos,on which WAS equ17a4ent TO the most
lronaGal &c Of smues.
lnat rs Plain poPlars snouta oe se1 oriy On
poor land, said Cruchot, stupefled by Grandets
calculations.
ies, SIR" replied the cooper, ironically:
Eugene, who was looking at the sublime
scenery OF the Loire, without listening to her
fsshsrs hgunE presently paIq attention to
client: - Well, you have brought son-ln-law
from Paris. AL saumur talks OF nothing but
your nephew: shau soon have 20 ora" up
contract Father drantlet.'
- You came out pretty early to tell me that,
accompanying this observation with motion OF
his wen: ''Well, my old comrade, I will be frank,
rather, look you, throw my daughter into the
Loire than give her to her cousin; you can state
that. But no, let people talk"
This answer made Eugenia dizzy. The remote
hopes. just beginning to dawn in hor heart,
howered at once, embodied themselves, and
formed bunch OF flowers, which she saw cut
and lying on the ground. Since the preceding
evening, she had become attached to Charles by
all those ties OF happiness which unite souls;
thenceforth suffering was to strengthen them.
Does it not belong to the noble fortune OF woman
to be more touched by the display OF misery than
the splendors Of fortune2 How could paterna1
feeling have died ont IN her fathers heart? OF
what crime was Charles guilty2 Mysterious
questions! Already her nascent love, 80 deep 3
mystery, shrouded' itself with mysteries. She
gent back home with trembling limbs, and, as
She reached the gloomy old street, 80 gay to her,
she found its appearance sad; she breathed in
tle melancholy which times and events had
stamped On It, None OF the teachings Of love
we're lacking. When few steps from the house,
she went ahead OF her father, and aw;.!ted him
It the door, after having knocked. But drandet,
VINO "a" N me ho1a1yg nalao paper no5 yes
opened, saio 70 him no" are becufas1ess
:, " You Will not listen to me, Grandet, replied
cruchot. Buy quickly; there 1s YET twenty
per cent TO be maae IN TWO years, oes1des inter-
Est at an excellent rate,-an income OF NE thou,
3and leFfes on an 1nvcstment OF elgnty thotsano
rance nee ana I, hfty centlmes. =
Me VII see aoout tnaL' fepueo 41anoe1,
:up3plng pug G., Gn1h:
r. ~ nly :, 1oq: ealu an 1ue noeaty.
Me1, wnat eaclalnlea uranaet, as Cruenot
'u9 ; tho paper petore hls eyes, and SAID to nm,