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1 I| with foam.~ ~“Ah! it is Father Chupin,” murmured one of 2 I| disclosed the reputation Father Chupin enjoyed among his 3 I| knew this; and yet when Father Chupin was pursued and captured, 4 I| toward him.~ ~“Ah, well, Father Chupin!” they cried, as 5 I| pale cheeks and set teeth, Father Chupin preserved the subdued 6 I| face, who, perhaps, read Father Chupin’s secret heart, brusquely 7 I| did not tell me,” replied Father Chupin; “but one need not 8 I| yield two crops; from you, Father Gauchais, the ground upon 9 I| man who had interrupted Father Chupin twice already.~ ~“ 10 I| It was waste land when my father bought it— covered with 11 I| ourselves.”~ ~For some moments Father Chupin had been studying, 12 I| are about it,” rejoined Father Chupin. “Where does Monsieur 13 I| wife if this is not so, Father Chupin.”~ ~Undoubtedly the 14 I| his appeal to selfishness, Father Chupin appealed to envy. 15 I| leaning upon his arm.~ ~Father Chupin walked straight toward 16 I| a singular spectacle.~ ~Father Chupin had gathered his 17 II| he thought, “I would ask Father Barrois for the hand of 18 II| had Marie-Anne seen her father in such a mood; and she 19 II| she was wondering if her father had become insane.~ ~It 20 II| what was passing in her father’s mind? She wished to know; 21 II| seated, she went to her father’s side.~ ~“Are you ill, 22 II| s side.~ ~“Are you ill, father?” she asked, in her sweet 23 II| times.~ ~“Ah, well, dear father,” said she, “what does that 24 II| this gold was not yours, my father? To whom did it belong? 25 II| generous indignation.~ ~“My father!” she exclaimed; “oh! my 26 II| she exclaimed; “oh! my father!”~ ~Then, in a calmer tone, 27 II| nor haggle with duty, my father. I think, however, that 28 II| shall not be!”~ ~“Oh, my father!”~ ~“No! this shall not 29 II| what you say proves true, father,” she murmured, in an altered 30 II| owner?”~ ~“Honor speaks, my father.”~ ~M. Lacheneur made the 31 II| I shall say to myself, father, that honest poverty is 32 II| said the young man, “my father sends me to inform you that 33 III| peasants?” he inquired of his father. “Do they have the appearance 34 III| Though less robust than his father, Martial was a no less distinguished-looking 35 III| from his mother.~ ~To his father he owed energy, courage, 36 III| intellect. If he shared his father’s prejudices, he had not 37 III| them carefully. What the father might do in a moment of 38 IV| closer observer than his father, had noticed that the priest’ 39 IV| Marie-Anne was as pale as her father, but her attitude and the 40 IV| me the honor——”~ ~But the father and the daughter both refused 41 IV| disgusted, made a sign to his father, which the latter did not 42 IV| she had said enough; her father felt that he was avenged.~ ~ 43 IV| be your advocate with my father—”~ ~“Mademoiselle Lacheneur 44 IV| Martial, remembering his father, yielded.~ ~“We shall meet 45 V| patrimony bequeathed him by his father: a property which yielded 46 V| has happened to him!” both father and mother were thinking.~ ~ 47 V| his usual deference to his father’s wishes.~ ~“This evening,” 48 V| leaning upon the arm of her father.~ ~Young d’Escorval followed 49 V| phrase which he had heard his father repeat a thousand times:~ ~“ 50 V| that Marie-Anne and her father had left him. He saw them 51 V| We are just going to your father’s house,” was the response 52 V| for these insults to the father of the girl Maurice loved.~ ~ 53 V| ineffable satisfaction.~ ~“If my father had not returned it,” murmured 54 V| obstinate Marie-Anne, “my father would have been an unfaithful 55 V| designed it as a home for old Father Guvat and his wife. And 56 VI| looked questioningly at his father.~ ~The baron’s face was 57 VI| I have not consulted my father, sir; but I know his affection 58 VI| He sprang toward his father, and seizing his hands, 59 VI| looked imploringly at her father.~ ~“It cannot be,” repeated 60 VI| If you will permit me, father,” ventured Maurice, “I will 61 VI| rushing to the door, his father stopped him.~ ~“Wait,” said 62 VII| arm to the daughter of his father’s friend; and they took 63 VIII| my name after that of her father, imploring God’s blessing 64 VIII| nothing to them. But while her father was so rich he did not dare 65 IX| doing so I have betrayed my father’s confidence— he was obliged 66 IX| find a way to touch your father’s heart.”~ ~She blushed 67 IX| have thrown myself at my father’s feet; he repulsed me.”~ ~ 68 IX| now with the reasons of my father’s refusal; and though his 69 IX| it. Do not go to find my father. If, moved by your prayers, 70 IX| between Chanlouineau and my father, I have not been consulted? 71 IX| misfortune is crushing my poor father to the earth, shall I add 72 IX| cowardly of creatures! If my father, yesterday, when I believed 73 IX| chateau of a rich and happy father, one cannot consent to desert 74 X| removing his property from his father’s control; but he might 75 X| would have believed that his father adored him. But if he had 76 X| relations were not those of father and son. One was in constant 77 XI| the Duc de Sairmeuse, my father.”~ ~Knowing what he did, 78 XI| A true gentleman like my father, and a hero of probity like 79 XI| began.~ ~He continued:~ ~“My father is an old man who has suffered 80 XI| succeeded in prejudicing my father against him.”~ ~One would 81 XI| contradiction drives my father to the verge of frenzy. 82 XI| faltered, “in the name of my father—”~ ~“Oh! do not thank me,” 83 XI| continued Maurice. “My father yesterday had the honor 84 XI| house, instantly——”~ ~“But father——”~ ~“Return!” he repeated 85 XI| instance of the duke, your father, who is anxious for you 86 XI| seeking me,” said he. “My father knows very well where he 87 XI| began to repeat to the father the story which he had just 88 XI| According to his version, his father and himself were in despair. 89 XII| at first. He went to his father, and after saluting him 90 XII| it was too late. Had his father’s project been executed, 91 XIII| containing Martial and his father turned from the public highway 92 XIII| legalized, I can make my father do anything I wish; yes, 93 XIII| duke, “let us speak of the father. He is one of my strongest 94 XIII| only a Jacobin.”~ ~“Oh! my father!”~ ~“Really, nothing could 95 XIII| obliged to hear; and his father’s recommendation occurred 96 XIII| the hall, he allowed his father and the marquis to go upstairs 97 XIII| it was only because her father had told her that this young 98 XIII| Monsieur le Marquis, since her father was the guardian of Sairmeuse?”~ ~“ 99 XIII| become of her? Here is her father, reduced to delving in the 100 XIII| exaggerate, Mademoiselle; my father will always preserve Lacheneur 101 XIII| like a thunder-bolt. My father and I had~ become too much 102 XIII| believed, a man who, as her father had said, would rise to 103 XIII| on up there. If I ask my father, he will laugh at my curiosity, 104 XIII| man who had treated her father so cruelly.~ ~“The duke 105 XIV| since they were below her father in rank, and most of them 106 XIV| others.~ ~She had seen her father besieged by so many suitors 107 XV| more than usual; and his father noticed, without alluding 108 XV| Then he confided to his father all that had taken place 109 XV| you quite sure,” asked his father, “that you correctly understood 110 XV| she tell you that if her father gave his consent to your 111 XVI| wresting from Marie-Anne’s father the secret of his inexplicable 112 XVI| him that you approve your father’s decision!”~ ~“I told him 113 XVI| friend? It may be that your father, in his despair, has adopted 114 XVI| remain inflexible when a father entreats you on his knees— 115 XVI| entreats you on his knees—a father who says to you: ‘Marie-Anne, 116 XVI| nothing you can say to my father. Why do you seek to impair 117 XVI| refuses, you, who are his father, must command him to do 118 XVI| almost to cunning.~ ~As his father presented him, he bowed 119 XVI| degrading themselves.”~ ~“Father,” interrupted the young 120 XVI| interrupted the young man; “father, wait, at least, until we 121 XVI| Ah! I was a poor, foolish father! The friend who carried 122 XVI| a crime to deceive one’s father and to affect virtues which 123 XVI| angry, but he feared his father.~ ~“Twenty thousand francs!” 124 XVI| appeared upon the threshold.~ ~“Father,” said she, “here is the 125 XVII| please Mlle. Blanche.~ ~Her father presented some suitor; she 126 XVII| she disappointed all her father’s hopes by rejecting him.~ ~“ 127 XVII| her, she encouraged her father in his efforts. He was beginning 128 XVII| alone, without giving her father time to seat himself, Mlle. 129 XVII| You know my decision, father,” she faltered, in an almost 130 XVII| haste!” he repeated.~ ~“Yes, father. I have fears.”~ ~“What 131 XVII| as soon as she left her father, she obliged Aunt Medea 132 XVII| Yes, my darling; and my father has given it to him. It 133 XVII| herself face to face with her father.~ ~Lacheneur’s face was 134 XVII| door, “and—I heard all.”~ ~“Father!”~ ~“What! would you try 135 XVIII| imparts.~ ~Not one of his father’s movements escaped his 136 XVIII| grate upon its hinges.~ ~“My father is going out,” he said to 137 XVIII| his conjectures.~ ~“If my father is going out,” he thought, “ 138 XVIII| intending to watch for his father’s return; by doing so, he 139 XVIII| baron returned.~ ~By his father’s dejected manner he plainly 140 XVIII| he wished to speak to his father. M. d’Escorval promptly 141 XVIII| Have you seen Marie-Anne, father? Have you spoken to her?”~ ~“ 142 XVIII| explanation.”~ ~“And you, father, with all your knowledge 143 XVIII| he wished to reassure his father; but he thought exactly 144 XVIII| rap.~ ~Marie-Anne and her father were kneeling on the hearth, 145 XVIII| your side.”~ ~“Oh! refuse, father!” exclaimed Marie-Anne; “ 146 XVIII| acting.” She waited for her father’s decision.~ ~“If I should 147 XVIII| man whom they love, be he father, brother, or lover. She 148 XVIII| child, Maurice; and your father is my friend.”~ ~“What of 149 XVIII| you are endangering your father’s life——”~ ~But Maurice 150 XVIII| me, I will return to my father’s house, and with this gun 151 XVIII| Marie-Anne turned to her father with clasped hands and a 152 XVIII| skiff. I will persuade my father to have it repaired.”~ ~“ 153 XVIII| is a painful avowal for a father; but I have no confidence 154 XIX| Lacheneur’s house.~ ~His father concluded that his ill-humor 155 XIX| Marquis,” remarked his father one day, “Chupin tells me 156 XIX| her wishes were for her father’s success.~ ~Maurice and 157 XXI| gathered there awaiting my father’s commands. Would you have 158 XXI| madness of her lover and father, even if she did not share 159 XXI| Do not try to detain my father, gentlemen; each moment 160 XXI| I must follow them, father.”~ ~“I forbid it.”~ ~“Alas! 161 XXI| I forbid it.”~ ~“Alas! father, I cannot obey you. I have 162 XXI| should not break my word, father.”~ ~“And your mother, Maurice, 163 XXI| and traitor. Farewell! my father.”~ ~M. d’Escorval appreciated 164 XXII| to Montaignac. Since her father had taken up his abode in 165 XXII| she decided to make her father her confidant; and she wrote 166 XXII| coming.~ ~She wished her father to compel Lacheneur to leave 167 XXII| said he; “she will warn her father. We must keep her as a hostage; 168 XXIII| hers. Lacheneur was a bad father. There was a day when I 169 XXIII| clinging to the neck of her father’s horse. He took her in 170 XXIV| from head to foot.~ ~“Your father, Maurice!” she exclaimed, 171 XXIV| stifled voice; “and your father!”~ ~The effect was terrible. 172 XXIV| Ah! I have killed my father!” he exclaimed.~ ~“Unhappy 173 XXIV| him, and he pursued:~ ~“My father was ignorant even of the 174 XXIV| the only way to save the father.”~ ~A violent peal of the 175 XXIV| The Baron d’Escorval, my father, who is absent,” replied 176 XXIV| this family?”~ ~“Three; my father, my mother—ill at this moment— 177 XXIV| of the fireside while his father was leading the peasants 178 XXIV| learn what has become of my father and my brother, and share 179 XXIV| in my attempt to save my father. She will be your daughter 180 XXV| now thought only of his father.~ ~Day was breaking; he 181 XXV| God? The failure of your father’s scheme sets you free!”~ ~“ 182 XXV| succeed. I will save your father, and mine—I will save your 183 XXV| guilt, you could save your father, I should tell you to deliver 184 XXV| would only implicate your father still more. You would be 185 XXV| that you have done to your father. When the trial comes, you 186 XXV| know what has become of my father!” he exclaimed.~ ~“The Baron 187 XXV| exclaimed Maurice, “Marie-Anne’s father has escaped! He had a good 188 XXV| and her sufferings to her father; and she made him swear 189 XXVI| to be present when your father is examined.”~ ~Ah! what 190 XXVII| He intends to save your father. How, I cannot understand.”~ ~ 191 XXVII| Chanlouineau. I alone am guilty; my father is innocent!”~ ~But fortunately 192 XXVII| say to him that his dying father commands him to live; he 193 XXVIII| acts had fallen upon his father. He, the culprit, would 194 XXVIII| would live, and his innocent father would perish on the guillotine. 195 XXVIII| Lacheneur’s daughter, knew her father’s hiding-place. She had, 196 XXVIII| obtain the secret of her father’s place of concealment. 197 XXVIII| to each other; and your father made me as insane, yes, 198 XXVIII| from the Sairmeuse, your father resolved to revenge himself 199 XXVIII| compact that bound me to your father was made.~ ~“‘You love my 200 XXVIII| terrible part which her father had imposed upon her, and 201 XXVIII| d’Escorval?”~ ~“Yes—the father of—Maurice!”~ ~His voice 202 XXVIII| Croix d’Arcy, and after your father had left us to ride on in 203 XXVIII| account! After reducing my father, who has just given you 204 XXVIII| slowly:~ ~“Marie-Anne, your father and I have misjudged your 205 XXVIII| remember; he was one of your father’s tenants. He took Jean, 206 XXIX| to give you news of your father.”~ ~Marie-Anne was so overcome 207 XXIX| reassured. We will save your father, I promise you—I swear it. 208 XXIX| surging in his heart.~ ~“My father has not been arrested,” 209 XXIX| silence? Do you fear my father’s opposition? You need not. 210 XXIX| hesitate?” he continued. “Your father and brother are pursued, 211 XXIX| mistress,” she stammered; “my father commanded and threatened, 212 XXIX| lowering his voice:~ ~“If the father is innocent,” he whispered, “ 213 XXIX| you.”~ ~At a sign from his father, Martial left the room.~ ~“ 214 XXIX| elder d’Escorval, or by your father.”~ ~“You are mistaken, Monsieur; 215 XXIX| explain what is required of my father in exchange for this letter?”~ ~“ 216 XXIX| silence; then turning to his father, he said:~ ~“One can always 217 XXIX| and until ten o’clock my father can visit the citadel without 218 XXIX| indispensable.”~ ~He turned to his father, and brusquely asked: “Have 219 XXIX| his memory; “Bavois. My father will find some pretext for 220 XXIX| in order to be nearer his father.~ ~“I suppose,” he continued, “ 221 XXIX| with the citadel as his father, was obliged to reflect 222 XXIX| which always exasperated his father.~ ~“He is sure of success,” 223 XXX| person of my acquaintance, my father and I will be obliged to 224 XXX| No. That is because my father has, at my solicitation, 225 XXX| gayly:~ ~“But let us go—my father cannot harangue those soldiers 226 XXXI| Mlle. Lacheneur news of her father.~ ~He said that his son-in-law 227 XXXII| in order to frighten his father; but in reality he considered 228 XXXII| was necessary to make his father his dupe. That was an easy 229 XXXII| thought; “and he and his father and that prig deserve—but 230 XXXII| accident,” he remarked to his father and to the marquis; “but 231 XXXII| looked searchingly at his father.~ ~“I suppose, Monsieur, 232 XXXIII| her “humiliations” to her father, i.e., the inconceivable 233 XXXIII| pursued. “Then why did your father propose it? The shame should 234 XXXIII| done?~ ~Martial desired his father to resign his authority; 235 XXXIV| seen at the time of her father’s execution? Courageous 236 XXXIV| made no attempt to see her father, it must have been because 237 XXXIV| recognized.~ ~“Where is my father?” he demanded, in a husky 238 XXXIV| Courtornieu, and addressing his father:~ ~“Listen to this letter,” 239 XXXIV| been previously cut, and my father was~ precipitated to the 240 XXXV| haste and carry away my father?” he asked. “Must we not 241 XXXV| from the stable.~ ~It was Father Poignot.~ ~“What! is this 242 XXXV| answer.~ ~“They told me,” Father Poignot continued, “that 243 XXXV| Escorval reposing under Father Poignot’s roof in comparative 244 XXXV| who had just saved his father’s life, depart. Now he was 245 XXXV| was agreed between your father and myself! So do not hurry, 246 XXXVI| leaving the church with her father, she heard of the arrival 247 XXXVI| succeed; and I understand your father~ ~well enough to know that 248 XXXVI| to send you news of your father.”~ ~So it was toward Turin 249 XXXVI| always been famous.”~ ~“My father has been put to death!” 250 XXXVI| fugitives at nightfall reached Father Poignot’s house.~ ~Maurice 251 XXXVII| you, and through you, your father has nearly died? Are you 252 XXXVII| he asked only to see his father and to embrace his mother.~ ~ 253 XXXVII| emotion might kill your father,” he declared; “and to tell 254 XXXVII| cannot even embrace the father who has been traitorously 255 XXXVIII| avoid another scene. My father and —my wife will be seeking 256 XXXVIII| Sairmeuse. And this man is the father of the young girl whom I 257 XXXVIII| in exchange for which my father assisted in the baron’s 258 XXXVIII| that you and yours sent my father to the scaffold! How have 259 XXXVIII| with his young wife, his father, and the Marquis de Courtornieu. 260 XXXVIII| to Sairmeuse. One to his father, the other to his wife.~ ~ 261 XXXIX| she had been in her own father’s house, and not at Sairmeuse.~ ~ 262 XXXIX| and Blanche approached her father, who still seemed to be 263 XXXIX| most peremptory tone:~ ~“Father! father!”~ ~This voice, 264 XXXIX| peremptory tone:~ ~“Father! father!”~ ~This voice, which had 265 XXXIX| Martial is my husband, father.”~ ~“And you!—after what 266 XXXIX| satisfaction.~ ~“You heard, father,” continued Blanche, “the 267 XXXIX| the gleam of malice in her father’s eye. He was thinking that 268 XXXIX| allow the duke, or even her father, to enter.~ ~In the evening, 269 XXXIX| sent by Martial to his father, the other, to his wife.~ ~ 270 XL| entreaties for admittance. Her father had been put to bed, and 271 XL| Adieu!”~ ~She took her father’s arm, and they were about 272 XLI| scene at the chateau reached Father Poignot’s farm-house that 273 XLI| events of the evening to his father’s guests.~ ~“It is inconceivable!” 274 XLI| detained them.~ ~That same day Father Poignot informed the abbe 275 XLI| bedside.~ ~Soon afterward, Father Poignot, on returning from 276 XLI| ascendancy over the mind of his father.~ ~“And it is for your sake,” 277 XLI| betraying their whereabouts, and Father Poignot’s little store was 278 XLI| times a week you can meet Father Poignot there. And, in the 279 XLI| So it was decided that Father Poignot should accompany 280 XLI| to yield to her feelings. Father Poignot was doubtless, even 281 XLII| she said to her despondent father; “try to imitate me.”~ ~ 282 XLII| vengeance; and she had found her father quite ready to assist her 283 XLII| For the first time the father and the daughter were in 284 XLII| At his age to outwit my father, an old politician of such 285 XLII| prevented it by calling:~ ~“Father Chupin!”~ ~He hesitated 286 XLII| around him.~ ~“Well, my good Father Chupin, what sort of sport 287 XLII| everywhere for three hours. Your father, monsieur le marquis—mon 288 XLII| been summoned.”~ ~“Is my father dead?”~ ~“No, Mademoiselle, 289 XLII| nor impressionable.~ ~“My father!” she faltered. “Good heavens! 290 XLII| roughly:~ ~“Control yourself, father. You are the victim of an 291 XLII| of mind. Turning to her father’s valet, she said:~ ~“It 292 XLII| has attempted to injure my father?”~ ~“I beg your pardon, 293 XLII| attempted to assassinate my father,” she murmured, “and this 294 XLII| little to Blanche whether her father recovered or died, but she 295 XLII| delicate attentions upon a sick father. It was impossible to induce 296 XLII| and after intrusting her father to the care of Aunt Medea, 297 XLIII| Lacheneur’s attempt upon her father’s life seemed to justify 298 XLIII| schemes of vengeance. Her father no longer required her care. 299 XLIII| had his bullet pierced my father’s heart. It is a revenge 300 XLIII| What game is he hunting? Father Chupin, of course. On the 301 XLIII| are more cunning than you, Father Chupin.”~ ~“Cunning—and 302 XLIV| idea which had lured her father on to destruction—the idea 303 XLIV| murmured, “remember our father.”~ ~The young man’s face 304 XLIV| is because I remember my father that justice shall be done. 305 XLIV| when you see me again, our father will be avenged!”~ ~She 306 XLIV| her friends concealed at Father Poignot’s farm made her 307 XLIV| whom she had chosen, the father of her child, Maurice d’ 308 XLIV| to the rendezvous where Father Poignot usually awaited 309 XLIV| been ruined through your father.”~ ~He explained to her 310 XLIV| Maurice, my husband, the father of my child?”~ ~Her voice 311 XLV| All this is very well, Father Chupin,” she said, dryly, “ 312 XLVI| imposed upon her by her father, and how she, herself, had 313 XLVI| that which had stricken her father—was developing itself in 314 XLVI| opened the door.~ ~Seeing his father prostrate on the ground, 315 XLVII| a six months’ sojourn in Father Poignot’s secluded farm-house, 316 XLVII| We shall all have one.”~ ~Father Poignot himself was busily 317 XLVII| which nothing can repay, Father Poignot,” he said, with 318 XLVII| boy, take me back to your father’s house.”~ ~Mme. d’Escorval 319 XLVII| richer reward than did the father’s. Chupin has been the vile 320 XLVII| demanded the widow, rudely.~ ~“Father Chupin.”~ ~“You can see 321 XLVII| vile wretch who betrayed my father should perish by my hand,” 322 XLVII| after I told him that his father was safe, his first words 323 XLVII| able to communicate with my father or with Marie-Anne. But 324 XLVII| more about the past. My father is well again, that is the 325 XLVII| in a stifled voice. “My father is safe, is he not? You 326 XLVII| binds my hands by saving my father!” exclaimed Maurice.~ ~From 327 XLVIII| search for them among her father’s papers.~ ~This was why 328 XLVIII| me in my rupture with her father exist no longer, and the 329 XLIX| had confessed all to his father, and confided his secret 330 L| the missing child.~ ~“The father will be sure to discover 331 LI| remain to watch over my poor father. You will be happy and contented 332 LI| and coin, belonging to her father.~ ~This sum represented 333 LII| of your meetings with his father! Blessed Jesus! what if 334 LII| been unable to find his father’s hidden treasure, and that 335 LII| heavy debt to my deceased father. In whose service did he 336 LII| doubted the truth of his father’s story.~ ~The courage and 337 LII| remark her emotion.~ ~“My father is dead, Blanche,” he replied.~ ~“ 338 LII| was there where my poor father was nearly murdered.”~ ~“ 339 LII| Martial’s affection for his father had not been very deep, 340 LII| was well aware that his father had but little love for 341 LII| deceived. The murderer of my father is the same man who attempted 342 LII| remembered that she had heard her father speak of a detective by 343 LII| him of having stolen their father’s hoard, and demanding his 344 LII| coldblooded perversity of his father, this wretch had inherited 345 LIII| miserable traitor, up to her father, the Marquis de Courtornieu, 346 LIII| the wretch who betrayed my father.”~ ~But the traitor’s children 347 LIII| that crime in which his father had been only an accomplice.”~ ~ 348 LV| defeat.~ ~Before he went to Father Tabaret, he was beginning 349 LV| good man,” he remarked to Father Absinthe, who was trotting 350 LV| reflections sotto voce; and Father Absinthe’s curiosity was 351 LV| and who gave it to her?”~ ~Father Absinthe began to grow impatient.~ ~“ 352 LV| entered the wine-shop, and Father Absinthe had scarcely had