Eugene silenced the commander by a wink whenever Vuillet approached them.

From that time, Sicardot never spoke of the Napoleons without a mysterious smile.
Two days before his return to Paris, Eugene met his brother Aristide, on the Cours Sauvaire, and the latter accompanied him for a short distance with the importunity of a man in search of advice.

As a matter of fact, Aristide was in great perplexity.

Ever since the proclamation of the Republic, he had manifested the most lively enthusiasm for the new government.

His intelligence, sharpened by two years' stay at Paris, enabled him to see farther than the thick heads of Plassans.