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Fortunately, I remembered the words which my father had once told me: 'If ever you meet the feu bellanger, my boy, take off your coat, turn the sleeves inside out, and put it on so; it means that you will have nothing to do with it, and that you will resist its efforts to seize you. I found strength enough to follow my father's advice. Hope must have sustained me.
Jean Bellanger is no more. He died, not suddenly, and yet of some quick disease, nervous exhaustion; his schemes, they said, had worn him out. But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire. What mistake is this? The bulk of that wealth must go to the nearest kin, so runs the law.
The relationship between Dalibard and Bellanger was not very close, it was that of cousins twice removed; and during Dalibard's previous residence at Paris, each embracing different parties, and each eager in his career, the blood-tie between them had not been much thought of, though they were good friends, and each respected the other for the discretion with which he had kept aloof from the more sanguinary excesses of the time.
What need of letters, when interviews were so facile? But she soon found a document that told all which love-letters could tell, it was an account of the moneys and possessions of Madame Bellanger; and there were pencil notes on the margin: "Vautran will give four hundred thousand francs for the lands in Auvergne, to be accepted. Consult on the power of sale granted to a second husband.
"Bellanger is rich, but he is not much older than my father." "He has bad health." "No," said Gabriel, with a downcast eye and a strange smile, "he has not bad health; but he may not be long-lived." "How do you mean?" asked Lucretia, sinking her voice into a still lower whisper, while a shudder, she scarce knew why, passed over her frame.
But then, poor lady, an Englishwoman, so strange here; very natural she should fret, and with bad health, too." "Bad health! Ah, I remember! She, also, does not seem likely to live long!" "So your poor father apprehends. Well, well; how uncertain life is! Who would have thought dear Bellanger would have " Gabriel rose hastily, and interrupted the widow's pathetic reflections.
"Ah! there it was, waiting for him to pass that way, and then with a shout of triumph, it would plunge him in." He remembered old Pierre's words: "Wait till he gets caught." How he wished he had not mocked him so. Perhaps this feu bellanger was preparing to revenge itself. Again, the light approached. It came nearer to him than it had yet come. The supreme moment had arrived.
Why, Lucretia, if we knew a little of this old art, par Dieu! we could soon hire the hotel! Well, well; perhaps we may survive my cousin Jean Bellanger!" Three days afterwards, Lucretia stood by her husband's side in the secret chamber. From the hour when she left it, a change was perceptible in her countenance, which gradually removed from it the character of youth.
The same journal states that, stimulated by the premium offered, families of 20 or more are not rare, the results of patriotic efforts. In 1895, 1742 "chefs de famille" made their claim according to the conditions of the law, and one, Paul Bellanger, of the River du Loup, claimed 300 acres as his premium, based on the fact that he was the father of 36 children.
As Bellanger was not many years older than Dalibard; as the former had but just married in the year 1791, and had naturally before him the prospect of a family; as his fortunes at that time, though rising, were unconfirmed; and as some nearer relations stood between them, in the shape of two promising, sturdy nephews, Dalibard had not then calculated on any inheritance from his cousin.
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