Unrecorded stories concerning the assassination of the Duc de Berry. CHAPTER VI Carbonarism 132 CHAPTER VII My hopes--Disappointment--M. Deviolaine is appointed forest-ranger to the Duc d'Orléans--His coldness towards me--Half promises--First cloud on my love-affairs--I go to spend three months with my brother-in-law at Dreux--The news waiting for me on my return--Muphti--Walls and hedges--The summer-house--Tennis--Why I gave up playing it--The wedding party in the wood CHAPTER VIII I leave Villers-Cotterets to be second or third clerk at Crespy--M. Lefèvre--His character--My journeys to Villers-Cotterets-- The _Pélerinage d'Ermenonville_--Athénaïs--New matter sent to Adolphe--An uncontrollable desire to pay a visit to Paris-- How this desire was accomplished--The journey--Hôtel des Vieux-Augustins--Adolphe--_Sylla_--Talma CHAPTER IX The theatre ticket--The _Café du Roi_--Auguste Lafarge--Théaulon--Rochefort--Ferdinand Langlé--People who dine and people who don't--Canaris--First sight of Talma--Appreciation of Mars and Rachel--Why Talma has no successor_--Sylla_ and the Censorship--Talma's box--A cab-drive after midnight-- The return to Crespy--M. Lefèvre explains that a machine, in order to work well, needs all its wheels--I hand in my resignation as his third clerk BOOK III CHAPTER I I return to my mother's--The excuse I give concerning my return-- The calfs lights--Pyramus and Cartouche--The intelligence of the fox more developed than that of the dog--Death of Cartouche--Pyramus's various gluttonous habits CHAPTER II Hope in Laffitte--A false hope--New projects--M. Lecomier--How and on what conditions I clothe myself anew--Bamps, tailor, 12 rue du Helder--Bamps at Villers-Cotterets--I visit our estate along with him--Pyramus follows a butcher lad--An Englishman who loved gluttonous dogs--I sell Pyramus--My first hundred francs--The use to which they are put--Bamps departs for Paris--Open credit CHAPTER III My mother is obliged to sell her land and her house--The residu-- The Piranèses--An architect at twelve hundred francs salary--I discount my first bill--Gondon--How I was nearly killed at his house--The fifty francs--Cartier--The game of billiards--How six hundred small glasses of absinthe equalled twelve journeys to Paris CHAPTER IV How I obtain a recommendation to General Foy--M. Danré of Vouty advises my mother to let me go to Paris--My good-byes--Laffitte and Perregaux--The three things which Maître Mennesson asks me not to forget--The Abbé Grégoire's advice and the discussion with him--I leave Villers-Cotterets CHAPTER V