. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . as Chupin,a notoriously bad character, had entered tin- house of Marie-Anne Lacheneur, and taken advantage of her absence tomingle poitOfl with her food; and the said Chupin had been 586 THE HONOR OF THE NAME himself assassinated soon after his crime by a certain Balstain,whose whereabouts were unknown. However, this affair soon interested the district far less thanthe constant visits which Martial was paying to MadameBlanche. Shortly afterward it was rumored that the Marquisand the Marquise de Sairmeuse were reconciled; and indeed afew weeks later, t
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . as Chupin,a notoriously bad character, had entered tin- house of Marie-Anne Lacheneur, and taken advantage of her absence tomingle poitOfl with her food; and the said Chupin had been 586 THE HONOR OF THE NAME himself assassinated soon after his crime by a certain Balstain,whose whereabouts were unknown. However, this affair soon interested the district far less thanthe constant visits which Martial was paying to MadameBlanche. Shortly afterward it was rumored that the Marquisand the Marquise de Sairmeuse were reconciled; and indeed afew weeks later, they left for Paris with an intention of resid-ing there permanently. A day or two after their departure,the eldest of the Chupins also announced his determination oftaking up his abode in the same great city. Some of his friendsendeavored to dissuade him, assuring him that he would cer-tainly die of starvation; but with singular assurance, he re-plied: On the contrary, I have an idea that I shant want foranything as long as I live I *IME gradually heals all wounds; and its effacing fingersA spare but few traces of events; which in their season mayhave absorbed the attention of many thousand minds. Whatremained to attest the reality of that fierce whirlwind of passionwhich had swept over the peaceful valley of the Oiselle? Onlya charred ruin on La Reche, and a grave in the cemetery, onwhich was inscribed: Marie-Anne Lacheneur, died at the ageof twenty. Pray for her! Recent as were the events of whichthat ruin and that gravestone seemed as it were the prologue andthe epilogue, they were already relegated to the legendary peasantry of Sairmeuse had other things to think about—the harvest, the weather, their sheep and cattle, and it was onlya few old men, the politicians of the village, who at timesturned their attention from agricultural incidents to rememberthe rising of Montaignac. Sometimes, during the long winterevenings, when they were gathered together at
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