Then, of all those who came from without, the mill claimed the first
place. Therese, Gregoire's widow, arrived with her offspring, her son
Robert, who now managed the mill under her control, and her three
daughters, Genevieve, Aline, and Natalie, followed by quite a train of
children, ten belonging to the daughters and four to Robert. Next came
Louise, notary Mazaud's wife, and Madeleine, architect Herbette's wife,
followed by Dr. Chambouvet, who had lost his wife, the good Marguerite.
And here again were three valiant companies; in the first, four
daughters, of whom Colette was the eldest; in the second, five sons with
Hilary at the head of them; and in the third, a son and daughter only,
Sebastien and Christine; the whole, however, forming quite an army, for
there were twenty of Mathieu's great-grandchildren in the rear.
But Paris arrived on the scene with Denis and his wife Marthe, who headed
a grand cortege. Denis, now nearly seventy, and a great-grandfather
through his daughters Hortense and Marcelle, had enjoyed the happy rest
which follows accomplished labor ever since he had handed his works over
to his eldest sons Lucien and Paul, who were both men of more than forty,
and whose own sons were already on the road to every sort of fortune.
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