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"I expect that you will learn in a willing spirit what I shall teach you, that you may become worthy of the noble position you occupy." "Oh, M'sieur may be sure I'll do my best," said Francine, quite overcome. "I expect you to show me the deference and obedience that I demand as head of the house of Bonzag." "Oh, M'sieur le Comte, how could you think " "To be economical and amiable."

The enemy duly arrived, dimpled and plump, an honest thirty-five, a solid widow, who stopped at the top of the stairs with the distant respect which the Comte de Bonzag inspired even in his creditors. "Francine, I have thought much," said the Comte, with a conciliatory look. "You were a little exaggerated, but you were in your rights."

At the proper age of thirty-one, the Comte de Bonzag fell heir to the enormous sum of fifteen thousand francs from an uncle who had made the fortune in trade.

"It is a wine that we De Bonzags have always kept to welcome our wives and to greet our children. Madame, I have the honor to drink to the Comtesse de Bonzag." "Oh, M'sieur le Comte," said Francine, who, watching his manner, emptied the goblet in one swallow. "To the health of my ancestors!" continued the Comte, draining the bottle into the two goblets. "And now throw your glass on the floor!"

The Comte de Bonzag sat bolt upright, dislodging from his lap a black spaniel, who tumbled on a matronly hound, whose startled yelp of indignation caused the esplanade to vibrate with dogs, that, scurrying from every cranny, assembled in an expectant circle, and waited with hungry tongues the intentions of their master.

He must have back the lottery tickets, though it meant a Comtesse de Bonzag. Fortunately for him, Francine knew nothing of the arrival of the paper. Though it was necessary to make haste, there was still time for a compatriot of D'Artagnan.

"Ah, Monsieur le Comte, six months is long when one has a child who must be " "We will not refer again to our disagreement," the Comte said, interrupting her sternly. "I have simply called you to hear what action I have decided on." "Oh, yes, M'sieur; thank you, M'sieur le Comte." "Unluckily," said Bonzag, frowning, "I am forced to make a great sacrifice.

"I believe you," interrupted the Comte, "and now no more of it! I also am going to be frank with you." He went with a smile to a corner where stood the little box, done up in rope, which held the trousseau of the Comtesse de Bonzag. "Open that, and give me the lottery-tickets I gave you." "Hanh? You M'sieur says?" "The lottery-tickets " "Oh, M'sieur, but they're not there " "Then where are they?"

"Never more so." "M'sieur really wants to make me the Comtesse de Bonzag?" "Dame! I tell you my intentions are honorable." "M'sieur will let me ask him one question?" "A dozen even." "M'sieur remembers that I am a widow " "With one child, yes." "M'sieur, pardon me; I have been thinking much, and I have been thinking of my little girl. What would M'sieur want me to do?"

"Our detectives have arrested the burglars. You will be overjoyed to hear that we have recovered your silver in toto!" The Comte de Bonzag, on the ruined esplanade of his Château de Keragouil, frowned into the distant crepuscle of haystack and multiplied hedge, crumpling in his nervous hands two annoying slips of paper.