Chapter

 1 I       |           on which Jerome-~Nicolas Sechard set an almost superstitious
 2 I       |           of great small things.~ ~Sechard had been in his time a journeyman
 3 I       |          the disastrous year 1793, Sechard, being fifty years old and
 4 I       |        master printer's license on~Sechard, and requisitioned the establishment.
 5 I       |         the establishment. Citizen Sechard accepted~the dangerous patent,
 6 I       |         this strait Jerome-Nicolas Sechard had the luck to discover
 7 I       |           had passed over, Nicolas~Sechard was obliged to look out
 8 I       |          begins. From the day when~Sechard first caught a glimpse of
 9 I       |     successor to the business; and Sechard~treated the lad harshly
10 I       |            Then the Abbe went, and Sechard promoted one of his four
11 I       |          and clever hands.~ ~David Sechard's school career was a brilliant
12 I       |           was a brilliant one. Old Sechard, as a~"bear" who had succeeded
13 I       |           that it seemed as if old Sechard saw some way of~gaining
14 I       |          farthing.~ ~ ~Now Nicolas Sechard's establishment hitherto
15 I       |            Angouleme.~Hitherto old Sechard had contrived to reduce
16 I       |          ruin of the old business.~Sechard thought joyfully when he
17 I       |           disuse.~ ~Jerome-Nicolas Sechard, bound by the laws of etymology
18 I       |           the habits~of youth, and Sechard senior is a case in point--
19 I       |           when disguised in drink. Sechard put you in mind of one of
20 I       |            were therefore his own. Sechard meant to sell dear; David,~
21 I       |   sumptuous dinner, Jerome-Nicolas Sechard, after copious~potations,
22 I       |            than not the remains of~Sechard's dinner, empty bottles
23 I       |        modernized by the late Mme. Sechard;~the walls were adorned
24 I       |         the mantel-shelf, for Mme. Sechard had died before~she carried
25 I       |          titubante, Jerome-Nicolas Sechard brought his son, and~pointed
26 I       |     improvement of my own," put in Sechard senior.~ ~" '----Together
27 I       |                 Sabots?" cried old Sechard, "SABOTS? There, take the
28 I       |          his astonished son.~ ~Old Sechard hurried to the second, and
29 I       |         foundry. Look here!"~ ~Old Sechard pounced upon some packets
30 I       |          thing was feasible.~ ~Old Sechard grew uneasy over his son'
31 I       |         ask will~pay nothing," old Sechard was saying to himself. While
32 I       |           Still, as Jerome-Nicolas Sechard~had taken the whole place
33 I       |        deed of partnership~between Sechard senior and his son. The
34 I       |       accepted the~conditions. Old Sechard, accustomed to peasants'
35 I       |          the chin.~ ~Next day, old Sechard made the apprentice move
36 I       |            would go. He called old Sechard's attention to the~fact
37 I       |      mother's fortune?" echoed old Sechard; "why, it was her beauty~
38 I       |      leaving you a treasure," said Sechard, uneasy at his son's~silence.~ ~
39 I       |         but known how to read, old Sechard would have put her to~set
40 I       |        into the bargain.~ ~ ~ ~Old Sechard set out on foot for the
41 I       |         acted a father's part; old Sechard was quite of that opinion
42 I       |   twelvemonth of rural retirement, Sechard senior~showed a careful
43 I       |         hugging its presentiments.~Sechard senior living at a distance,
44 I       |           him like a dread; he saw Sechard & Son~dropping into the
45 I       |         hovering over~the house of Sechard. But there is a tutelary
46 I       |            now they offered to buy Sechard's paper, to have~all the
47 I       |          blunder, he said, and he,~Sechard, had come to put a stop
48 I       |            and the license!"~ ~Old Sechard asked the Cointets sixty
49 I       |         dealt the deathblow to the Sechard establishment; but~the old
50 I       |          Angouleme, and when~David Sechard left, his future friend
51 I       |      newspaper in the~department)--Sechard & Son made a bare three
52 I       |            as it is called--to the Sechard's establishment. So it came~
53 I       |      outside, the condition of the Sechard printing~establishment bore
54 I       |           brilliant future--~David Sechard, my brother, my friend.
55 III     |           rather than desert David Sechard; David must witness his~
56 III     |        could not fail to win~David Sechard's heart. So, since the first
57 III     | traditional bits of land which old~Sechard used to buy as they came
58 III     |           into the market, for old Sechard had~savings--he was lucky
59 IV      |            them to accept M. David Sechard, I am quite willing to~sacrifice
60 IV      |         for me, Lucien. I am David Sechard,~printer to His Majesty
61 IV      |          and always~shall be David Sechard. In this society that you
62 VI      |           never care to have David~Sechard for a brother-in-law!"~ ~
63 VI      |       sister's~engagement to David Sechard."~ ~For all answer, Postel
64 Addendum|          from a Courtesan's Life~ ~Sechard, Jerome-Nicolas~Eve and
65 Addendum|     Jerome-Nicolas~Eve and David~ ~Sechard, David~Eve and David~A Distinguished
66 Addendum|          from a Courtesan's Life~ ~Sechard, Madame David~Eve and David~