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That day had gone by like a dream for Eugene, and the sense of unreality lasted into the evening; so that, in spite of his energetic character and clear-headedness, his ideas were a chaos as he sat beside Goriot in the cab. The old manâs voice was full of unwonted happiness, but Eugene had been shaken by so many emotions that the words sounded in his ears like words spoken in a dream.
âIt was finished this morning! All three of us are going to dine there together, together! Do you understand? I have not dined with my Delphine, my little Delphine, these four years, and I shall have her for a whole evening! We have been at your lodging the whole time since morning. I have been working like a porter in my shirt sleeves, helping to carry in the furniture. Aha! you donât know what pretty ways she has; at table she will look after me, âHere, papa, just try this, it is nice.â And I shall not be able to eat. Oh, it is a long while since I have been with her in quiet every-day life as we shall have her.â
âIt really seems as if the world has been turned upside down.â
âUpside down?â repeated Father Goriot. âWhy, the world has never been so right-side up. I see none but smiling faces in the streets, people who shake hands cordially and embrace each other, people who all look as happy as if they were going to dine with their daughter, and gobble down a nice little dinner that she went with me to order of the chef at the Cafe des Anglais. But, pshaw! with her beside you gall and wormwood would be as sweet as honey.â
âI feel as if I were coming back to life again,â said Eugene.
âWhy, hurry up there!â cried Father Goriot, letting down the window in front. âGet on faster; I will give you five francs if you get to the place I told you of in ten minutes time.â
With this prospect before him the cabman crossed Paris with miraculous celerity.
âHow that fellow crawls!â said Father Goriot.
âBut where are you taking me?â Eugene asked him.
âTo your own house,â said Goriot.
The cab stopped in the Rue dâArtois. Father Goriot stepped out first and flung ten francs to the man with the recklessness of a widower returning to bachelor ways.
âCome along upstairs,â he said to Rastignac. They crossed a courtyard, and climbed up to the third floor of a new and handsome house. There they stopped before a door; but before Goriot could ring, it was opened by Therese, Mme. de Nucingenâs maid. Eugene found himself in a charming set of chambers; an ante-room, a little drawing-room, a bedroom, and a study, looking out upon a garden. The furniture and the decorations of the little drawing-room were of the most daintily charming description, the room was full of soft light, and Delphine rose up from a low chair by the fire and stood before him. She set her fire-screen down on the chimney-piece, and spoke with tenderness in every tone of her voice.
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