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Nothing is more dreary, more sulky, than a dinner where all the guests are strangers, so it was for their sake that I hailed you in but you will come another time for mine, I hope? Say that you will." And for a few minutes she moved about the room with Stidmann, wholly occupied with him. Crevel and Hulot were announced separately, and then a deputy named Beauvisage.
You would have lived in Paris with your daughter, and played your part of mother-in-law in the upper regions of power." Madame Beauvisage made a sign of satisfaction. "But we are knocked down by the death of this charming young man, to whom the prince royal had already given his friendship.
"I have noticed," replied Madame Marion to her brother's question, "that ever since the revolution of July Madame Beauvisage has aspired to live in Paris. Obliged to stay here as long as her father lives, she has fastened her ambition on a future son-in-law, and my lady dreams now of the splendors and dignities of political life." "Could you love Cecile?" said the colonel to his son.
But Beauvisage his name is Beauvisage is a millionaire, and, like me, my dear, three years ago, he will give a hundred thousand crowns to be the lover of a real lady. Yes, you see," he went on, misunderstanding a gesture on Adeline's part, "he is jealous of me, you understand; jealous of my happiness with Madame Marneffe, and he is a fellow quite capable of selling an estate to purchase a "
The floor above is the one occupied by the family. Notwithstanding the large fortune of the Beauvisage husband and wife, their establishment consisted of only a cook and a chamber-maid, the latter a peasant, who washed and ironed and frotted the floors rather than waited on her two mistresses, who were accustomed to spend their time in dressing and waiting upon each other.
Monsieur and Madame Beauvisage had also in prospect their double inheritance from old Grevin on one side, and the old farmer's wife Beauvisage on the other. Great provincial fortunes are usually the product of time multiplied by economy. Thirty years of old age make capital.
"Danton went from it!" cried Colonel Giguet, furious at Achille's speech and the justice of it. "Bravo!" This was an acclamation, and sixty persons clapped their hands. "My father has a ready wit," whispered Simon Giguet to Beauvisage.
"I shall be much embarrassed this evening at the Marions' to know what to say," remarked Severine. "Well, then, my dear," said her father, "send Madame Marion to me; I'll talk to her." "I knew, father, that you were thinking of our future, but I had no idea you expected it to be so brilliant," said Madame Beauvisage, taking the hands of the old man and kissing them.
"Denunciations," replied Beauvisage proudly, "are coming in freely, too, to the Committee of Vigilance of our Section. Some make these revelations out of patriotism, others lured by the bait of a bank-bill for a hundred sols. Many children denounce their parents, whose property they covet."
For these reasons, Beauvisage would not have exchanged his house for the chateau, in spite of its lordly air, its stone walls, and its splendid situation. Entering the Beauvisage house we find a versatile, at the farther end of which rises the staircase. To right we enter a large salon with two windows opening on the square; to left is a handsome dining-room, looking on the street.
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