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Apply to M. Metivier '' -- cut him short at once . `` Oh ! '' cried Eve when she heard the result , `` as soon as the bill is returned to M. Metivier , we may be easy . '' At two o'clock the next day , Victor-Ange-Hermenegilde Doublon , bailiff , made protest for non-payment at two o'clock , a time when the Place du Murier is full of people ; so that though Doublon was careful to stand and chat at the back door with Marion and Kolb , the news of the protest was known all over the business world of Angouleme that evening . Tall Cointet had enjoined it upon Master Doublon to show the Sechards the greatest consideration ; but when all was said and done , could the bailiff 's hypocritical regard for appearances save Eve and David from the disgrace of a suspension of payment ? Let each judge for himself . A tolerably long digression of this kind will seem all too short ; and ninety out of every hundred readers shall seize with avidity upon details that possess all the piquancy of novelty , thus establishing yet once again the trust of the well-known axiom , that there is nothing so little known as that which everybody is supposed to know -- the Law of the Land , to wit .