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Eve, distracted, sprang to her lover’s arms, and kissed him tenderly, as she answered through her tears:

“Do as you would do if you were alone; I will work to earn the money.”

In spite of the most impassioned kiss ever given and taken by betrothed lovers, David left Eve overcome with trouble, and went out to Lucien.

“Do not worry yourself,” he said; “you shall have your two thousand francs.”

“Go in to see Postel,” said Mme. Chardon, “for you must both give your signatures to the bill.”

When Lucien and David came back again unexpectedly, they found Eve and her mother on their knees in prayer. The women felt sure that Lucien’s return would bring the realization of many hopes; but at the moment they could only feel how much they were losing in the parting, and the happiness to come seemed too dearly bought by an absence that broke up their life together, and would fill the coming days with innumerable fears for Lucien.

“If you could ever forget this sight,” David said in Lucien’s ear, “you would be the basest of men.”

David, no doubt, thought that these brave words were needed; Mme. de Bargeton’s influence seemed to him less to be feared than his friend’s unlucky instability of character, Lucien was so easily led for good or evil. Eve soon packed Lucien’s clothes; the Fernando Cortez of literature carried but little baggage. He was wearing his best overcoat, his best waistcoat, and one of the two fine shirts. The whole of his linen, the celebrated coat, and his manuscript made up so small a package that to hide it from Mme. de Bargeton, David proposed to send it by coach to a paper merchant with whom he had dealings, and wrote and advised him to that effect, and asked him to keep the parcel until Lucien sent for it.

In spite of Mme. de Bargeton’s precautions, Chatelet found out that she was leaving Angouleme; and with a view to discovering whether she was traveling alone or with Lucien, he sent his man to Ruffec with instructions to watch every carriage that changed horses at that stage.

“If she is taking her poet with her,” thought he, “I have her now.”

Lucien set out before daybreak the next morning. David went with him. David had hired a cabriolet, pretending that he was going to Marsac on business, a little piece of deception which seemed probable under the circumstances. The two friends went to Marsac, and spent part of the day with the old “bear.” As evening came on they set out again, and in the beginning of the dawn they waited in the road, on the further side of Mansle, for Mme. de Bargeton. When the seventy-year old traveling carriage, which he had many a time seen in the coach-house, appeared in sight, Lucien felt more deeply moved than he had ever been in his life before; he sprang into David’s arms.

“God grant that this may be for your good!” said David, and he climbed into the shabby cabriolet and drove away with a feeling of dread clutching at his heart; he had terrible presentiments of the fate awaiting Lucien in Paris.

ADDENDUM

Note: Two Poets is part one of a trilogy. The second part is A Distinguished Provincial at Paris and details the further adventures of Lucien. Part three is titled Eve and David and continues their story. In other addendum references parts one and three are combined under the title of Lost Illusions.

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Bargeton, Madame de (see Chatelet, Baronne du)

Cerizet

Eve and David

A Man of Business

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

The Middle Classes

Chardon, Madame (nee Rubempre)

Eve and David

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Chatelet, Sixte, Baron du

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

The Thirteen

Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

The Government Clerks

Cointet, Boniface

Eve and David

The Firm of Nucingen

The Member for Arcis

Cointet, Jean

Eve and David

Courtois

Eve and David

Courtois, Madame

Eve and David

Desplein

The Atheist’s Mass

Cousin Pons

The Thirteen

The Government Clerks

Pierrette

A Bachelor’s Establishment

The Seamy Side of History

Modeste Mignon

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Honorine

Gentil

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Grozier, Abbe

The Commission in Lunacy

Hautoy, Francis du

Eve and David

Maucombe, Comte de

Letters of Two Brides

Montriveau, General Marquis Armand de

The Thirteen

Father Goriot

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Another Study of Woman

Pierrette

The Member for Arcis

Negrepelisse, De

The Commission in Lunacy

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Petit-Claud

Eve and David

Pimentel, Marquis and Marquise de

Eve and David

Postel

Eve and David

Prieur, Madame

Eve and David

Rastignac, Baron and Baronne de (Eugene’s parents)

Father Goriot

Rastignac, Laure-Rose and Agathe de

Father Goriot

The Member for Arcis

Rubempre, Lucien-Chardon de

Eve and David

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

The Government Clerks

Ursule Mirouet

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Sechard, Jerome-Nicolas

Eve and David

Sechard, David

Eve and David

A Distinguished Provincial At Paris

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Sechard, Madame David

Eve and David

A Distinguished Provincial At Paris

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

Senonches, Jacques de

Eve and David

Senonches, Madame Jacques de

Eve and David

Stanhope, Lady Esther

The Lily of the Valley

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