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Still he did not despair. He had read in Martha's eyes that she would wait. And Mlle. Armande de Sairmeuse, a rich old maid, was his god-mother; and he thought, if he attacked her adroitly, that he might, perhaps, interest her in his love-affair. Then the terrible storm of the revolution burst over France.
"Well, since then my brother has never brought himself to ask anything whatsoever of Chesnel," continued Mlle. Armande. "Of your old household servant? Why, Marquis, you would do Chesnel honor an honor which he would gratefully remember till his latest breath." "No," said the Marquis, "the thing is beneath one's dignity, it seems to me."
You have only to read the third act to find that Armande, Philaminte and Belise almost invariably express themselves in this style. Proceeding further in the same direction, we discover that there is also such a thing as a professional logic, i.e. certain ways of reasoning that are customary in certain circles, which are valid for these circles, but untrue for the rest of the public.
Such a character will drag a man down into the mire if he is left to himself, or bring him to the highest heights of political power if he has some stern friend to keep him in hand. Neither Chesnel, nor the lad's father, nor Aunt Armande had fathomed the depths of a nature so nearly akin on many sides to the poetic temperament, yet smitten with a terrible weakness at its core.
"We have her! now let us find out the secret of the case," were the words written in the eyes of all present. "To make your happiness complete," said Mademoiselle Armande, "you ought to have children, a fine lad like my nephew " Tears seemed to start in Madame du Bousquier's eyes.
"Good God!" he thought, "does this wretched man meditate some crime?" He glanced at Chanlouineau, and his anxiety increased. On hearing the names of the marquis and of Marie-Anne, the robust farmer had turned livid. "It is decided," said Lacheneur, with an air of the lost satisfaction, "that they will give me the ten thousand francs bequeathed to me by Mademoiselle Armande.
So to du Croisier he wrote a very offhand letter, informing him that he had drawn a bill of exchange on him for ten thousand francs, adding that the amount would be repaid on receipt of the letter either by M. Chesnel or by Mlle. Armande d'Esgrignon. Then he indited two touching epistles one to Chesnel, another to his aunt.
The Duchess believed in nothing but herself. By the end of the year 1823 the Kellers had supplied Victurnien with two hundred thousand francs, and neither Chesnel nor Mlle. Armande knew anything about it. He had had, besides, two thousand crowns from Chesnel at one time and another, the better to hide the sources on which he was drawing.
Any young man might be expected to feel some curiosity if he saw a traveling carriage stop at a notary's door in such a town and at such an hour of the night; the young man in question was sufficiently inquisitive to stand in a doorway and watch. He saw Mlle. Armande alight. "Mlle. Armande d'Esgrignon at this time of night!" said he to himself. "What can be going forward at the d'Esgrignons'?"
"We will think of a way of repairing the evil," said the Duchess. Mlle. Armande went downstairs to the salon, and found the Collection of Antiquities complete to a man.
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