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They in turn methodized them for their forty-eight deputies, and one hundred and ninety-two servants in addition to the female who came to the house to receive the weekly wash performed their daily task intelligently and harmoniously. A bath of atar of roses next received the master of the House of Pont-Noir.
'You alarm me, exclaimed she; 'it can't be possible that the servants have let him have a looking-glass, contrary to my express instructions! 'No, no, said the master of Pont-Noir, 'he is at work over the World. 'The World? said Bella, inquiringly. 'Pray don't give me a headache.
At the expiration of that time, the avails were to be paid to Roseton, of Pont-Noir, provided but one of that name should exist; if more were living, the estate was to remain in abeyance until such a condition should be reached.
When the ices came in, the elder Roseton was carried out; and the heir of Pont-Noir, having seen the remains properly bestowed in a place of safety, and a special inquest held, finished the night with the counsellors in the enjoyment of a tempered hilarity, and rose next morning the possessor of wealth so boundless, so unspeakable, that my brain reels as I endeavor to grasp at even its outlying fragments.
I have nothing in my pocket but hundred-dollar city bills, and those infernal omnibus drivers make change with Valley Bank notes, which a certain person furnishes them, and Mundus fixed his eyes full on the master of Pont-Noir. 'Mr. Roseton, he continued, 'will you be so kind as to call at my office after the Second Board, to-day?
About a year previous to this, in the dead of night, a mysterious stranger solicited audience of the master of Pont-Noir. Attended by the entire force of the house in complete armor, Roseton granted the interview. The stranger advanced within easy gun-shot, and said: 'The great house of Boscobello, Bolaro and Company is in imminent peril.
A careless servant once ventured to leave the bath filled without a change of the fluid, after it had been occupied; but the negligence was at once detected by the master of Pont-Noir, and his weekly allowance of cologne-water was summarily reduced. Upon the ceiling, over the bath, were frescoed, in Titianelli's richest style, the most graceful legends of mythology.
There brooded the primeval heavens, undimmed by earthly vapors, unfathomed by earthly instruments; forever indescribable by earthly tongues. Two hundred years before, a Pont-Noir of the Roseton branch accumulated immense wealth from a diamond mine in East Haddam, Connecticut.
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