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CONFORMABLY with his engagement to meet M. Louvier, Alain found himself on the day and at the hour named in M. Gandrin's salon. On this occasion Madame Gandrin did not appear. Her husband was accustomed to give diners d'hommes. The great man had not yet arrived.
A charming person opened the door, oh, such a pretty young woman! who looked at me rather suspiciously and kept the door half closed. 'I am Alain, a friend of Mongenod's, I said. Instantly the door opened wide, and I entered a miserable garret, which was, nevertheless, kept with the utmost neatness.
"Can there have been quarrel or misunderstanding?" thought Alain; and after that question his heart asked itself, "Supposing Isaura were free, her affections disengaged, could he wish to woo and to win her?" and his heart answered "Eighteen months ago thou wert nearer to her than now.
Romaine, 'if you call it prevarication. The order in question emanated from the Count himself. He does not wish to see you. 'For which I must take the word of Mr. Daniel Romaine? asked Alain. 'In default of any better, said Romaine.
Let your lawyer get them, and go to sleep with both ears on your pillow." "Ah! you think Collot can pay if he will?" "Ah! foi! did not M. Gandrin tell you that M. Collot was safe to buy your wood at more money than any one else would give?" "Certainly," said Alain, comforted. "Gandrin left that impression on my mind. I will set him on the man.
Up to that moment he had felt a dislike to Rochebriant. That young noble's too obvious pride of race had nettled him, not the less that the financier himself was vain of his ancestry. Perhaps he still disliked Alain, but the dislike was now accompanied with a certain, not hostile, interest; and if he became connected with the race, the pride in it might grow contagious.
She hath told me that she was daughter of Alain li Gros of the Valleys of Camelot, and that her mother's name is Yglais, and her own Dindrane." "Ha, Lady," saith Messire Gawain, "She is sister to the knight that hath borne away the shield, for I lay at her mother's house wherein I was right well lodged."
"My dear and best friend," said Alain, very much startled, "I should have thought that you, of all men in the world, would have most approved of my request you, so devoted an Imperialist you, indignant that the representative of one of these families, which the First Napoleon so eagerly and so vainly courted, should ask for the grade of sous- lieutenant in the armies of Napoleon the Third you, who of all men know how ruined are the fortunes of a Rochebriant you, feel surprised that he clings to the noblest heritage his ancestors have left to him their sword!
We have crowds of such philosophers in London; but there they are less noticed, because the agreeable attributes of the sect are there dimmed and obfuscated. It is not a philosophy that flowers richly in the reek of fogs and in the teeth of east winds; it wants for full development the light atmosphere of Paris. Now this philosophy began rapidly to exercise its charms upon Alain de Rochebriant.
"I resolved to devote all my superfluous means about ten thousand francs a year to acts of intelligent benevolence," continued Monsieur Alain, tranquilly.
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