Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-31
CHAPTER V.

Early rising is the rule in the country,
so, like most other girls, Eugene was
up betimes in the morning; this morning
she rose earlier than usual, her toilAtte
was henceforth TO possess an interesthn-
known before. She began by brushing
her chestnut hair, and wound the heavy
plaits about her head careful that no
loose ends should escape from the braid |
ed coronet which made an appropriate
setting for a face both frank and shy.
AS she washed her hands again and
again in the cold spring water that
roughened and Redeemed the skin, she
looked down at her pretty rounded arms
and wondered what her cousin did to
have hands so soft and so white, and
nails so shapely. She put on a pair of
new stockings, and her best shoes, and
laced herself carefully, without passing
over single eyelet hole. For the first
time in her life, in fact she wished to
look her best, and felt that it was pleas
ant to have pretty new dress to wear,
becoming dress, which was nicely
made. She opened her door, went out on
to the landing, and bent over the stair
case to hear the sounds in the house.
He J" not getting up yet she
thought. She heard Nanon's morning
fro, swept out the dining room. lit the
kitchen fire. chained up the dog, and talk
ed to her friends the brutes in the stable
Eugene fed down the staircase, and
ran over to Nanon, who was milking the
COW.
"Nanon," she cried, do let us have
some cream for my cousins coffee, there's
DEAR"
But. mademoiselle, you can't have
cream off this mornings milk said Ma
non, as she burst out laughing. Il can't
make cream for you. Your cousin is as
charming as charming can be. that he is.
You haven't seen him in that silk night
rail of his. all flowers and gold, / did.
thought The linen he wears is every bit
as fine as NJ. lie Cures surplice."
"Nanon. make some cake for u.s.
And who is to find the wood to heat
the oven and the -four and the butter?"
asked Nanon, vino in her capacity of
Grandet's prime minister was a person
of immense Importance In Eugenies
ewes. and even in Eugenie's mothers. us
he TO be robbed TO make a feast for your
cousin? Ask for the butter and the -four
and the frewood; he is your father, go
and ask him. he may give them to you.
| Therei there he is, just coming down
stairs to see after the provisions"
| But Eugene had escaped into the gar
den; the sound of her fathers footstep
| ON the creaking staircase terrified her
| She was conscious of a happiness that
/ shrank from the observation of others,
a happiness which. as we are apt to
think. and perhaps not without reason,
/ shines from our eyes, and is written at
large upon our foreheads.
For the first time in her life the sight
of her father struck sort of terror into
her heart: she felt that he was the mas
ter of her fate, and that she was guilty
hiding some of her thoughts from him.
She began TO walk hurriedly up and
down. wondering how it was that the air
was so fresh; there was a reviving force
in the sunlight. it was as if new life
| had begun While she was still thinking
how to gain her end concerning the cake,
a quarrel came to pass between Nanon
and Grandet. a thing rare as winter
/ swallow The good man had just taken
/ his keys. and was about TO dole out the
| provisions required for the day.
rs there any bread left over from yes
| terdayY' he asked Manor.
Not a crumb, sir"
| Grandet took up q large loaf round
/ in form and close in eonsistence. shaped
/ in one of the fat baskets which they
use for making in Anjou. and was about
10 cut il, when Nanon broke in upon him
with:
There are FIVE of us to-day. sir"
True" answered Grandet: but these
loaves of yours weigh six pounds apiece;
there will be some left over. Besides,
/ these Young fellows from Paris never
/ touch bread. as you will soon see.
! Having cut down the days rations TO
! the lowest possible point, the miser was
about TO so to his fruit loft. first care
fully locking up the cupboards of his
storeroom, when Nanon stopped him.
Just give me some -four and butter,
sir" she said. land l viii make cake
for the children
Are you going to turn the house up
side down because my nephew is here.
Your nephew was no more IN my
mind than your dog. no more than he was
| in yours. There, now, You have
only put out six Jumps OF sugar. and 1
want eight"
Come. come. Nanop; Il have never
seen you like this before. What has
come over you? Are you mistress here
You will have six Jumps of sugar and no
more"
In spite of the low price Of sugar, il
was, in Grandet's eyes. the most precious
OF all colonial produces. But every wom-
an. no matter how simple she may be,
can devise some shift 10 gain her ends;
ard Nanon allowed the question OF the
sugar TO drop. in order to have her way
about the cake.
"Mademoiselle. she called through the
window, wouldn't you IKE some cake?"
''No, no." answered Eugenie-
Stay, Nanon." said Grandet as be
heard his daughters voice; there"
j he opened the -four biz. measured cut