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I accept your invitation." "To the Hotel de Montgeron," said Zibeline to her footman. "I never shall forget your sister's kindness to me," she continued, as the carriage rolled away. "She fulfils my idea of the great lady better than any other woman I have seen." "You may be proud of her friendship," said Henri. "When once she likes a person, it is forever. I am like her in that respect.
"Do you doubt it?" he responded, folding her tenderly in his arms. "Yes and no! But if this is our supreme farewell, do not tell me so!" The Duchesse de Montgeron had no children, and her most tender affections were concentrated upon her husband and her brother.
"I should like to observe," said the Duchesse de Montgeron, "that the first of these two questions is the only order of the day. Not counting the purchase of the land, the architect's plan calls for an estimate of five hundred thousand francs in round numbers." "And we have on hand " said the Comtesse de Lisieux.
In one of the proscenium boxes sat the Duchesse de Montgeron with the Comtesse de Lisieux; in another the Vicomtesse de Nointel and Madame Thomery. In the first box on the left Madame Desvanneaux was to be seen, with her husband and her son, the youthful and recently rejected pretender to the hand of Mademoiselle de Vermont.
"Besides, I am accountable only to the Duc de Montgeron. What is his opinion?" "I call it a very clever stroke," said the Duke. "You hear, Madame! Only, of course, not every lady has a collection of similar little notes!" said the Vicomtesse de Nointel. The entrance of M. Durand, treasurer of the society, interrupted the progress of this correspondence.
And the courage to tell this to her is the only effort to which my strength is unequal. Only you can tell it in such a way as to soften the blow " "I will try to do it," said the Duke. "I thank you! As to the personal belongings and the family portraits, their place is at Montgeron, is it not?" "That is understood. Now, one word more, Henri." "Speak!"
The young mistress of the house was seated on one side, between the Duc de Montgeron and the Marquis de Prerolles. Facing her sat the Duchesse de Montgeron, between General Lenaieff and the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy.
At midday he returned to breakfast at the Hotel de Montgeron where, morning and evening, his plate was laid; and soon after this meal he retired to his own quarters to work with his orderly, whose duty it was to report to him regarding the numerous guns and pieces of heavy ordnance which make the object of much going and coming in military life.
He owed eight hundred thousand francs to the Credit Foncier; four hundred thousand to Paul Landry; more than one hundred thousand to various jewellers and shopkeepers; twenty-five thousand to the Duc de Montgeron. It was necessary to sell the chateau and the property at one million four hundred thousand francs, and the posters advertising the sale must be displayed without delay.
More serious than the others, the group surrounding Madame de Montgeron strolled along under the trees in the side paths which, in their windings, often came alongside of the bridle-path. "What has become of Mademoiselle de Vermont, Duchess?" inquired Madame de Lisieux, who had been surprised not to find Zibeline riding with their party.
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