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These two approvingly greeted the young lawyer, the janitor handing him a note from Norbert Flitcroft, and the friend mechanically "borrowing" a quarter from him as he opened the envelope. "I'll be roun' yo' way to git a box o' SE-gahs," laughed the friend, "soon ez de campaign open up good.
De Mussidan had had hideous doubts concerning the relations of Norbert and Diana, both before and after marriage; but his wife firmly denied this at the moment when she was revealing the other guilty secrets of her past life. He had believed that Sabine was not his child, and now he had to reproach himself with the indifference he had displayed towards her.
Proud and haughty as they were, they evidently looked upon his father and himself as their equals, in spite of the coarse garments that they wore. The realization of these facts effected a great change in Norbert. He was the equal of all these people, and yet how great a gulf separated him from them.
Be gentle with your wife; and if you survive me, do not make her life one prolonged existence of agony." "Silence, or I shall look upon you as a dastard," returned Norbert fiercely. "Miserable fool!" said De Croisenois. "On guard, then, and may heaven decide the issue!" There was a sharp clash as their swords crossed, and the combat began with intense vigor.
It is a long time since he has been furnished with a key. The hour for the meeting has been judiciously fixed, for all the servants will be out; but I implore you not to be violent, for I would not do your wife any harm, but I feel that you ought to be warned. "From one Norbert ran through the contents of this infamous anonymous letter in an instant.
Her first thought was to destroy them, but on reflection she decided not to do so, and hid the packet in the same place as she had concealed the letters written by Norbert to her. Norbert had given Daumon sixty thousand francs, and in addition owed him twenty thousand on his promissory notes.
"If there was a billiard-table here," said he, "we could pass away the time with a game, though, to be sure, it runs into money." Norbert never had had more than a few pence in his pocket at one time, and at this remark the color rose to his face, and he felt much humiliated. "My father," added the young collegian, "gives me all I ask for.
Norbert hesitated for an instant: his reasoning powers urged him to decline the offer, but he refused to listen to them, and, fastening his horses to a tree, he followed Daumon down the by-road. The cottage was an excellent one, and extremely well furnished. A woman, who acted as Daumon's housekeeper, served the refreshments.
"Well," asked the Counsellor invidiously, "and, pray, what is there to prevent you doing all this?" "Want of funds," returned Norbert, with a deep sigh; "I should want a great deal, and I have hardly any; if I were to ask my father for any, he would refuse me, and wonder " "Have you no friends who would find you such a sum as you would require until you came of age?"
At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death." Duroy laughed: "Egad, you make me shudder." Norbert de Varenne continued: "You do not understand me now, but later on you will remember what I have told you. We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work, and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love?
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