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He surprised me by announcing the marriage of the Comtesse de Kergarouet, a Demoiselle de Fontaine." "The daughter of 'Grand-Jacques," cried the chevalier, who had lived with the admiral during his stay in Paris. "The countess is his heir; she has married an old ambassador. My visitor told me the strangest things about our neighbor, Mademoiselle des Touches, so strange that I can't believe them.
"A war name, I suppose," said the old man. "I was called 'l'Intime, the Comte de Fontaine 'Grand-Jacques, the Marquis de Montauran the 'Gars. I was the friend of Ferdinand, who never submitted, any more than I did. Ah! those were the good times; people shot each other, but what of that? we amused ourselves all the same, here and there."
The young man's face grew darker; he took the young lady aside and said in the annoyed tone of a well-bred man, "Will those gentlemen be at La Vivetiere on the appointed day?" "Yes," she replied, "all of them, the Claimant, Grand-Jacques, and perhaps Ferdinand." "Then allow me to return there. I cannot sanction such robbery. Yes, madame, I call it robbery. There may be honor in being robbed, but "
"Well, but there's Monsieur le Comte de Fontaine and his family, hein? the one that always went by the name of GRAND-JACQUES, and the YOUNG SCAMP, who was the Marquis de Montauran, and Monsieur de la Billardiere, who was called the NANTAIS at 'The Queen of Roses' before the 13th Vendemiaire.
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