suffer longer? And just then a name came to his recollection that
caused him a thrill of delight, the name of the manufacturer in whose
employment Maurice’s brother-in-law was. M. Delaherche! yes, that was
it. He accosted an old man who happened to be passing.
“Can you tell me where M. Delaherche lives?”
“In the Rue Maqua, near the corner of the Rue au Beurre; you can’t
mistake it; it is a big house, with statues in the garden.”
The old man turned away, but presently came running back. “I see you
belong to the 106th. If it is your regiment you are looking for, it
left the city by the Chateau, down there. I just met the colonel,
Monsieur de Vineuil; I used to know him when he lived at Mezieres.”
But Jean went his way, with an angry gesture of impatience. No, no! no
sleeping on the hard ground for him, now that he was certain of
finding Maurice. And yet he could not help feeling a twinge of remorse
as he thought of the dignified old colonel, who stood fatigue so
manfully in spite of his years, sharing the sufferings of his men,
with no more luxurious shelter than his tent. He strode across the
Grande Rue with rapid steps and soon was in the midst of the tumult
and uproar of the city; there he hailed a small boy, who conducted him
to the Rue Maqua.
There it was that in the last century a grand-uncle of the present
Delaherche had built the monumental structure that had remained in the
family a hundred and sixty years. There is more than one cloth factory
in Sedan that dates back to the early years of Louis XV.; enormous
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