Nanon will bring you bread and water. You hear me--go!"

Eugenie burst into tears and fled up to her mother. Grandet, after

marching two or three times round the garden in the snow without

heeding the cold, suddenly suspected that his daughter had gone to her

mother; only too happy to find her disobedient to his orders, he

climbed the stairs with the agility of a cat and appeared in Madame

Grandet's room just as she was stroking Eugenie's hair, while the

girl's face was hidden in her motherly bosom.