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"Well?" cried the circle around Mademoiselle Beauvisage as soon as he reappeared. "He is a count, and vieille roche, I answer for it." "Oh! how I should like to see him!" cried Cecile. "Mademoiselle," said Antonin, smiling and looking maliciously at Madame Mollot, "he is tall and well-made and does not wear a wig.
Just as they were mounting for the park gate was so low on the garden side that they led their horses until they were through it old Beauvisage, the farmer at Bellache, happened to pass. "There!" cried Gothard, "I hear some one." "Oh, it is only I," said the worthy man, coming toward them. "Your servant, gentleman; are you off hunting, in spite of the new decrees?
In fact, an alliance with the intimate friend of the senator Comte de Gondreville, peer of France, was certainly a great honor for the son of a Gondreville tenant-farmer. The widow Beauvisage, his mother, would have made any sacrifice to obtain it; but on learning the success of her son, she dispensed with the duty of giving him a dot, a wise economy which was imitated by the notary.
"It isn't a tobacco license, or a stamped-paper office, is it?" "No, something less difficult. These damned women, when hatred or a desire for vengeance takes possession of them, are marvels of instinct; and Madame Beauvisage, who roars like a lioness at the very name of Sallenauve, has taken it into her head that beneath his incomprehensible success there is some foul intrigue or mystery.
"In the first place," replied Vinet, "I should leave the Beauvisage people to pay all costs of whatever kind, inasmuch as they propose to do so." "Do I oppose that?" said the minister. "Have I the right or the means to do so?" "The affair," continued Vinet, "should be placed in the hands of some capable and wily solicitor, like Desroches, for example, Monsieur de Trailles' lawyer.
Although for thirty years this provincial Aristides possessed the confidence of the whole town, having been mayor of Arcis from 1804 to 1814 and again during the Hundred Days, and although the Opposition had accepted him as their leader until the triumph of 1830, at which period he refused the honors of the mayoralty on the ground of his great age, and finally, although the town, in order to manifest its affection for him, elected his son-in-law, Monsieur Beauvisage, mayor in his stead, it now revolted against him and some young striplings went so far as to talk of his dotage.
"And?" asked the colonel. "They have been refused." "Then what do the Beauvisage family want?" said the colonel, looking alternately at his son and sister.
That Violette is the worthy son of his grandfather; I think he is capable of enriching himself by going into bankruptcy, there's neither law nor gospel in him." "He is very intelligent," said Beauvisage. "You have given him the good-will of a fine business for thirty thousand francs, which is certainly worth fifty thousand; and in ten years he has only paid you ten thousand "
Beauvisage and Cecile, surprised by the order of the day promulgated by Severine, were enchanted. While his wife went to dress for Madame Marion's reception, the father listened to the many conjectures it was natural a girl should make in such a case. Then, fatigued with his day, he went to bed as soon as his wife and daughter had departed.
"Messieurs," said Simon, goaded by the sarcastic interjection of the little notary, "the honor which you have done to Monsieur le Maire may take him unawares, but it cannot surprise him." "That's it," said Beauvisage; "I am too sensible of this attention on the part of my fellow-citizens not to be excessively flattered by it." "Bravo!" cried the notary alone.
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