Eve and David

Excerpt

Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart.  He wanted to make the money quickly, and less for himself than for Eve’s sake and Lucien’s.  He would place his wife amid the elegant and comfortable surroundings that were hers by right, and his strong arm should sustain her brother’s ambitions—­this was the programme that he saw before his eyes in letters of fire.