Volume V Part 29 (2/2)
”If you want any more money,” she said, ”write to ive you any more now, Monsieur Paul will have it all”
Then one Dece caoing to accompany her mistress as far as that When they reached the station, they found out first how much the tickets were, then, when the trunk had been labeled and the ticket bought, they stood watching the rails, both toowhat the train would be like to think of the sad cause of this journey At last a distant whistle e, black ging after it a long chain of little rolling houses A porter opened the door of one of these little huts, and Jeanne kissed Rosalie and got in
”_Au revoir_, madame I hope you will have a pleasant journey, and will soon be back again”
”_Au revoir_, Rosalie”
There was another whistle, and the string of carriagesfaster and faster, till they reached a terrific speed
In Jeanne's coers, ere both asleep, and she sat and watched the fields and farhtened at the speed at which she was going, and the feeling ca a new phase of life, and was being hurried towards a very different world froirlhood and herwhen she reached Paris A porter took her trunk, and she followed closely at his heels, soht of hihtened as she was pushed about by the swaying crowd through which she did not kno to pass
”I was recommended here by Me Roussel,” she hastened to say when she was in the hotel office
The landlady, a big, stolid-looking wo at the desk
”Who is Me Roussel?” she asked
”The lawyer from Goderville, who stays here every year,” replied Jeanne, in surprise
”Very likely he does,” responded the big woman, ”but I don't know him
Do you want a rooe and led the way upstairs
Jeanne followed, feeling very low-spirited and depressed, and sitting down at a little table, she ordered so of a chicken to be sent up to her, for she had had nothing to eat since day-break
She thought of how she had passed through this sa tour, as she ate her supper by the ht of one candle, and of how Julien had then first shown hi and brave and hopeful; now she felt old and tihtened her
When she had finished her supper, she went to theand watched the crowded street She would have liked to go out if she had dared, but she thought she should be sure to lose herself, so she went to bed But she had hardly yet got over the bustle of the journey, and that, and the noise and the sensation of being in a strange place, kept her awake The hours passed on, and the noises outside gradually ceased, but still she could not sleep, for she was accustomed to the sound, peaceful sleep of the country, which is so different froreat city
Here she was conscious of a sort of restlessness all around her; the murmur of voices reached her ears, and every now and then a board creaked, a door shut, or a bell rang She was just dozing off, about two o'clock in the hboring rooht she heard aAs dawn approached she became ht, she got up and dressed
He lived in the Rue du Sauvage, and sheas little as possible, and walk there It was a fine day, though the as keen, and there were a greatthe street as quickly as she could When she reached the other end, she was to turn to the right, then to the left; then she would coain She could not find the square, and a baker froave her different directions altogether She started on again,to follow other directions, lost herself entirely She walked on and on, and was just going to hail a cab when she saw the Seine Then she decided to walk along the quays, and in about an hour she reached the dark, dirty lane called Rue du Sauvage
When she ca, she was so excited that she stood before the door unable to move another step Poulet was there, in that house! Her hands and knees trembled violently, and it was soe to the doorkeeper's box
”Will you go and tell M Paul de La to see hi a piece of money into the man's hand
”He does not live here now, madame,” answered the doorkeeper
She started
”Ah! Where--where is he living now?” she gasped
”I do not know”