"Ah! you are called Charles? What a beautiful name!" cried Eugenie.

Presentiments of evil are almost always justified. At this moment

Nanon, Madame Grandet, and Eugenie, who had all three been thinking

with a shudder of the old man's return, heard the knock whose echoes

She removed the saucer filled with sugar, leaving a few pieces on the

table-cloth; Nanon carried off the egg-cup; Madame Grandet sat up like

a frightened hare. It was evidently a panic, which amazed Charles, who

was wholly unable to understand it.