“Oh, stay, stay!”

But at Whitsuntide she ran away from Yonville, carried off by Theodore, stealing all that was left of the wardrobe.

It was about this time that the widow Dupuis had the honour to inform him of the “marriage of Monsieur Léon Dupuis her son, notary at Yvetot, to Mademoiselle Léocadié Leboeuf of Bondeville.” Charles, among the other congratulations he sent him, wrote this sentence⁠—

“How glad my poor wife would have been!”