“Exupere,” he said to his son, “you must try to carry out intelligently a little manoeuvre4 which I shall explain to you, but you are not to ask the meaning of it; and if you guess the meaning I command you to toss it into that Styx which every lawyer and every man who expects to have a hand in the government of his country is bound to keep within him for the secrets of others. After you have paid your respects and compliments to Madame and Mademoiselle Mignon, to Monsieur and Madame Dumay, and to Monsieur Gobenheim if he is at the Chalet, and as soon as quiet is restored, Monsieur Dumay will take you aside; you are then to look attentively5 at Mademoiselle Modeste (yes, I am willing to allow it) during the whole time he is speaking to you. My worthy6 friend will ask you to go out and take a walk; at the end of an hour, that is, about nine o’clock, you are to come back in a great hurry; try to puff7 as if you were out of breath, and whisper in Monsieur Dumay’s ear, quite low, but so that Mademoiselle Modeste is sure to overhear you, these words: ‘The young man has come.’”
Exupere was to start the next morning for Paris to begin the study of law. This impending8 departure had induced Latournelle to propose him to his friend Dumay as an accomplice9 in the important conspiracy10 which these directions indicate.
“Is Mademoiselle Modeste suspected of having a lover?” asked Butscha in a timid voice of Madame Latournelle.
“Hush, Butscha,” she replied, taking her husband’s arm.
Madame Latournelle, the daughter of a clerk of the supreme11 court, feels that her birth authorizes12 her to claim issue from a parliamentary family. This conviction explains why the lady, who is somewhat blotched as to complexion13, endeavors to assume in her own person the majesty14 of a court whose decrees are recorded in her father’s pothooks. She takes snuff, holds herself as stiff as a ramrod, poses for a person of consideration, and resembles nothing so much as a mummy brought momentarily to life by galvanism. She tries to give high-bred tones to her sharp voice, and succeeds no better in doing that than in hiding her general lack of breeding. Her social usefulness seems, however, incontestable when we glance at the flower-bedecked cap she wears, at the false front frizzling around her forehead, at the gowns of her choice; for how could shopkeepers dispose of those products if there were no Madame Latournelle? All these absurdities15 of the worthy woman, who is truly pious16 and charitable, might have passed unnoticed, if nature, amusing herself as she often does by turning out these ludicrous creations, had not endowed her with the height of a drum-major, and thus held up to view the comicalities of her provincial17 nature. She has never been out of Havre; she believes in the infallibility of Havre; she proclaims herself Norman to the very tips of her fingers; she venerates18 her father, and adores her husband.
Little Latournelle was bold enough to marry this lady after she had attained19 the anti-matrimonial age of thirty-three, and what is more, he had a son by her. As he could have got the sixty thousand francs of her “dot” in several other ways, the public assigned his uncommon21 intrepidity22 to a desire to escape an invasion of the Minotaur, against whom his personal qualifications would have insufficiently23 protected him had he rashly dared his fate by bringing home a young and pretty wife. The fact was, however, that the notary recognized the really fine qualities of Mademoiselle Agnes (she was called Agnes) and reflected to himself that a woman’s beauty is soon past and gone to a husband. As to the insignificant24 youth on whom the clerk of the court bestowed26 in baptism his Norman name of “Exupere,” Madame Latournelle is still so surprised at becoming his mother, at the age of thirty-five years and seven months, that she would still provide him, if it were necessary, with her breast and her milk — an hyperbole which alone can fully27 express her impassioned maternity28. “How handsome he is, that son of mine!” she says to her little friend Modeste, as they walk to church, with the beautiful Exupere in front of them. “He is like you,” Modeste Mignon answers, very much as she might have said, “What horrid29 weather!” This silhouette30 of Madame Latournelle is quite important as an accessory, inasmuch as for three years she has been the chaperone of the young girl against whom the notary and his friend Dumay are now plotting to set up what we have called, in the “Physiologie du Mariage,” a “mouse-trap.”
As for Latournelle, imagine a worthy little fellow as sly as the purest honor and uprightness would allow him to be — a man whom any stranger would take for a rascal31 at sight of his queer physiognomy, to which, however, the inhabitants of Havre were well accustomed. His eyesight, said to be weak, obliged the worthy man to wear green goggles32 for the protection of his eyes, which were constantly inflamed33. The arch of each eyebrow34, defined by a thin down of hair, surrounded the tortoise-shell rim20 of the glasses and made a couple of circles as it were, slightly apart. If you have never observed on the human face the effect produced by these circumferences35 placed one within the other, and separated by a hollow space or line, you can hardly imagine how perplexing such a face will be to you, especially if pale, hollow-cheeked, and terminating in a pointed36 chin like that of Mephistopheles — a type which painters give to cats. This double resemblance was observable on the face of Babylas Latournelle. Above the atrocious green spectacles rose a bald crown, all the more crafty38 in expression because a wig39, seemingly endowed with motion, let the white hairs show on all sides of it as it meandered40 crookedly41 across the forehead. An observer taking note of this excellent Norman, clothed in black and mounted on his two legs like a beetle42 on a couple of pins, and knowing him to be one of the most trustworthy of men, would have sought, without finding it, for the reason of such physical misrepresentation.
Jean Butscha, a natural son abandoned by his parents and taken care of by the clerk of the court and his daughter, and now, through sheer hard work, head-clerk to the notary, fed and lodged44 by his master, who gave him a salary of nine hundred francs, almost a dwarf45, and with no semblance37 of youth — Jean Butscha made Modeste his idol46, and would willingly have given his life for hers. The poor fellow, whose eyes were hollowed beneath their heavy lids like the touch-holes of a cannon47, whose head overweighted his body, with its shock of crisp hair, and whose face was pock-marked, had lived under pitying eyes from the time he was seven years of age. Is not that enough to explain his whole being? Silent, self-contained, pious, exemplary in conduct, he went his way over that vast tract48 of country named on the map of the heart Love-without-Hope, the sublime49 and arid50 steppes of Desire. Modeste had christened this grotesque51 little being her “Black Dwarf.” The nickname sent him to the pages of Walter Scott’s novel, and he one day said to Modeste: “Will you accept a rose against the evil day from your mysterious dwarf?” Modeste instantly sent the soul of her adorer to its humble52 mud-cabin with a terrible glance, such as young girls bestow25 on the men who cannot please them. Butscha’s conception of himself was lowly, and, like the wife of his master, he had never been out of Havre.
Perhaps it will be well, for the sake of those who have never seen that city, to say a few words as to the present destination of the Latournelle family — the head clerk being included in the latter term. Ingouville is to Havre what Montmartre is to Paris — a high hill at the foot of which the city lies; with this difference, that the hill and the city are surrounded by the sea and the Seine, that Havre is helplessly circumscribed53 by enclosing fortifications, and, in short, that the mouth of the river, the harbor, and the docks present a very different aspect from the fifty thousand houses of Paris. At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate54 roofs lies in motionless blue billows; at Ingouville the sea is like the same roofs stirred by the wind. This eminence55, or line of hills, which coasts the Seine from Rouen to the seashore, leaving a margin56 of valley land more or less narrow between itself and the river, and containing in its cities, its ravines, its vales, its meadows, veritable treasures of the picturesque57, became of enormous value in and about Ingouville, after the year 1816, the period at which the prosperity of Havre began. This township has become since that time the Auteuil, the Ville-d’Avray, the Montmorency, in short, the suburban58 residence of the merchants of Havre. Here they build their houses on terraces around its ampitheatre of hills, and breathe the sea air laden59 with the fragrance60 of their splendid gardens. Here these bold speculators cast off the burden of their counting-rooms and the atmosphere of their city houses, which are built closely together without open spaces, often without court-yards — a vice61 of construction with the increasing population of Havre, the inflexible62 line of the fortifications, and the enlargement of the docks has forced upon them. The result is, weariness of heart in Havre, cheerfulness and joy at Ingouville. The law of social development has forced up the suburb of Graville like a mushroom. It is today more extensive than Havre itself, which lies at the foot of its slopes like a serpent.
At the crest64 of the hill Ingouville has but one street, and (as in all such situations) the houses which overlook the river have an immense advantage over those on the other side of the road, whose view they obstruct65, and which present the effect of standing66 on tip-toe to look over the opposing roofs. However, there exist here, as elsewhere, certain servitudes. Some houses standing at the summit have a finer position or possess legal rights of view which compel their opposite neighbors to keep their buildings down to a required height. Moreover, the openings cut in the capricious rock by roads which follow its declensions and make the ampitheatre habitable, give vistas67 through which some estates can see the city, or the river, or the sea. Instead of rising to an actual peak, the hill ends abruptly68 in a cliff. At the end of the street which follows the line of the summit, ravines appear in which a few villages are clustered (Sainte–Adresse and two or three other Saint-somethings) together with several creeks70 which murmur71 and flow with the tides of the sea. These half-deserted slopes of Ingouville form a striking contrast to the terraces of fine villas72 which overlook the valley of the Seine. Is the wind on this side too strong for vegetation? Do the merchants shrink from the cost of terracing it? However this may be, the traveller approaching Havre on a steamer is surprised to find a barren coast and tangled73 gorges74 to the west of Ingouville, like a beggar in rags beside a perfumed and sumptuously75 apparelled rich man.
In 1829 one of the last houses looking toward the sea, and which in all probability stands about the centre of the Ingouville today, was called, and perhaps is still called, “the Chalet.” Originally it was a porter’s lodge43 with a trim little garden in front of it. The owner of the villa69 to which it belonged — a mansion77 with park, gardens, aviaries78, hot-houses, and lawns — took a fancy to put the little dwelling79 more in keeping with the splendor80 of his own abode81, and he reconstructed it on the model of an ornamental82 cottage. He divided this cottage from his own lawn, which was bordered and set with flower-beds and formed the terrace of his villa, by a low wall along which he planted a concealing84 hedge. Behind the cottage (called, in spite of all his efforts to prevent it, the Chalet) were the orchards85 and kitchen gardens of the villa. The Chalet, without cows or dairy, is separated from the roadway by a wooden fence whose palings are hidden under a luxuriant hedge. On the other side of the road the opposite house, subject to a legal privilege, has a similar hedge and paling, so as to leave an unobstructed view of Havre to the Chalet.
This little dwelling was the torment87 of the present proprietor88 of the villa, Monsieur Vilquin; and here is the why and the wherefore. The original creator of the villa, whose sumptuous76 details cry aloud, “Behold our millions!” extended his park far into the country for the purpose, as he averred89, of getting his gardeners out of his pockets; and so, when the Chalet was finished, none but a friend could be allowed to inhabit it. Monsieur Mignon, the next owner of the property, was very much attached to his cashier, Dumay, and the following history will prove that the attachment90 was mutual91; to him therefore he offered the little dwelling. Dumay, a stickler92 for legal methods, insisted on signing a lease for three hundred francs for twelve years, and Monsieur Mignon willingly agreed, remarking —
“My dear Dumay, remember, you have now bound yourself to live with me for twelve years.”
In consequence of certain events which will presently be related, the estates of Monsieur Mignon, formerly93 the richest merchant in Havre, were sold to Vilquin, one of his business competitors. In his joy at getting possession of the celebrated94 villa Mignon, the latter forgot to demand the cancelling of the lease. Dumay, anxious not to hinder the sale, would have signed anything Vilquin required, but the sale once made, he held to his lease like a vengeance95. And there he remained, in Vilquin’s pocket as it were; at the heart of Vilquin’s family life, observing Vilquin, irritating Vilquin — in short, the gadfly of all the Vilquins. Every morning, when he looked out of his window, Vilquin felt a violent shock of annoyance96 as his eye lighted on the little gem63 of a building, the Chalet, which had cost sixty thousand francs and sparkled like a ruby97 in the sun. That comparison is very nearly exact. The architect has constructed the cottage of brilliant red brick pointed with white. The window-frames are painted of a lively green, the woodwork is brown verging98 on yellow. The roof overhangs by several feet. A pretty gallery, with open-worked balustrade, surmounts99 the lower floor and projects at the centre of the facade100 into a veranda101 with glass sides. The ground-floor has a charming salon102 and a dining-room, separated from each other by the landing of a staircase built of wood, designed and decorated with elegant simplicity103. The kitchen is behind the dining-room, and the corresponding room back of the salon, formerly a study, is now the bedroom of Monsieur and Madame Dumay. On the upper floor the architect has managed to get two large bedrooms, each with a dressing-room, to which the veranda serves as a salon; and above this floor, under the eaves, which are tipped together like a couple of cards, are two servants’ rooms with mansard roofs, each lighted by a circular window and tolerably spacious104.
Vilquin has been petty enough to build a high wall on the side toward the orchard86 and kitchen garden; and in consequence of this piece of spite, the few square feet which the lease secured to the Chalet resembled a Parisian garden. The out-buildings, painted in keeping with the cottage, stood with their backs to the wall of the adjoining property.
The interior of this charming dwelling harmonized with its exterior105. The salon, floored entirely106 with iron-wood, was painted in a style that suggested the beauties of Chinese lacquer. On black panels edged with gold, birds of every color, foliage107 of impossible greens, and fantastic oriental designs glowed and shimmered108. The dining-room was entirely sheathed109 in Northern woods carved and cut in open-work like the beautiful Russian chalets. The little antechamber formed by the landing and the well of the staircase was painted in old oak to represent Gothic ornament83. The bedrooms, hung with chintz, were charming in their costly110 simplicity. The study, where the cashier and his wife now slept, was panelled from top to bottom, on the walls and ceiling, like the cabin of a steamboat. These luxuries of his predecessor111 excited Vilquin’s wrath112. He would fain have lodged his daughter and her husband in the cottage. This desire, well known to Dumay, will presently serve to illustrate113 the Breton obstinacy114 of the latter.
The entrance to the Chalet is by a little trellised iron door, the uprights of which, ending in lance-heads, show for a few inches above the fence and its hedge. The little garden, about as wide as the more pretentious115 lawn, was just now filled with flowers, roses, and dahlias of the choicest kind, and many rare products of the hot-houses, for (another Vilquinard grievance) the elegant little hot-house, a very whim116 of a hot-house, a hot-house representing dignity and style, belonged to the Chalet, and separated, or if you prefer, united it to the villa Vilquin. Dumay consoled himself for the toils117 of business in taking care of this hot-house, whose exotic treasures were one of Modeste’s joys. The billiard-room of the villa Vilquin, a species of gallery, formerly communicated through an immense aviary118 with this hot-house. But after the building of the wall which deprived him of a view into the orchards, Dumay bricked up the door of communication. “Wall for wall!” he said.
In 1827 Vilquin offered Dumay a salary of six thousand francs, and ten thousand more as indemnity119, if he would give up the lease. The cashier refused; though he had but three thousand francs from Gobenheim, a former clerk of his master. Dumay was a Breton transplanted by fate into Normandy. Imagine therefore the hatred120 conceived for the tenants121 of the Chalet by the Norman Vilquin, a man worth three millions! What criminal leze-million on the part of a cashier, to hold up to the eyes of such a man the impotence of his wealth! Vilquin, whose desperation in the matter made him the talk of Havre, had just proposed to give Dumay a pretty house of his own, and had again been refused. Havre itself began to grow uneasy at the man’s obstinacy, and a good many persons explained it by the phrase, “Dumay is a Breton.” As for the cashier, he thought Madame and Mademoiselle Mignon would be ill-lodged elsewhere. His two idols122 now inhabited a temple worthy of them; the sumptuous little cottage gave them a home, where these dethroned royalties123 could keep the semblance of majesty about them — a species of dignity usually denied to those who have seen better days.
Perhaps as the story goes on, the reader will not regret having learned in advance a few particulars as to the home and the habitual124 companions of Modeste Mignon, for, at her age, people and things have as much influence upon the future life as a person’s own character, — indeed, character often receives ineffaceable impressions from its surroundings.
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