He was enraged, and accused his family of having duped him.

What! Eugene kept his parents informed of the situation, and yet his mother had never given him any of his eldest brother's letters to read, in order that he might follow the advice given therein! And it was only now he learnt by chance that his eldest brother regarded the success of the Coup d'Etat as certain! This circumstance, moreover, confirmed certain presentiments which that idiot of a sub-prefect had prevented him from obeying.

He was especially exasperated against his father, whom he had thought stupid enough to be a Legitimist, but who revealed himself as a Bonapartist at the right moment.
"What a lot of folly they have allowed me to perpetrate," he muttered as he ran along.

"I'm a fine fellow now.

Ah! what a lesson! Granoux is more capable than I." He entered the office of the "Independant" like a hurricane, and asked for his article in a choking voice.