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Updated: June 24, 2025
'And that gust of wind among the corn, added Gagniere, 'and the pretty bit of the boy and girl skylarking in the distance. Bongrand sat listening with an embarrassed air, and a smile of inward suffering; and when Fagerolles asked him what he was doing just then, he answered, with a shrug of his shoulders: 'Well, nothing; some little things. But I sha'n't exhibit this time.
But he was pleased with the trees, with the sunny glade; and the nude woman the woman lying on the grass appeared to him superior to his own powers, as if some one else had painted her, and as if he had never yet beheld her in such resplendency of life. He turned to Sandoz, and said simply: 'They do right to laugh; it's incomplete. Never mind, the woman is all right! Bongrand was not hoaxing me.
Before breaking the seals and making the inventory, it took some time for the procureur du roi, who is the legal guardian of orphans, to commission Monsieur Bongrand to act in his place. Dionis had his pickings; Goupil enjoyed some mischief-making; and as the business was profitable the sessions were many.
Without immediately answering, Bongrand went back to his picture. Then, in his thundering voice, resuming in one cry all his hidden suffering, the whole of the nascent struggle within him which he dared not avow, he said: 'He plagues me. He shall never have anything of mine! Let him go and buy of Fagerolles!
Goupil received the July cross. Bongrand retained his place only through the influence of his son, procureur du roi at Melun, whose marriage with Mademoiselle Levrault was then on the tapis. Seeing the three-per-cents quoted at forty-five, the doctor started by post for Paris, and invested five hundred and forty thousand francs in shares to bearer.
However, Naudet noticed the 'Village Funeral. 'Hullo! that's your picture, eh? he said. 'So you wanted to give a companion to the "Wedding"? Well, I should have tried to dissuade you! Ah! the "Wedding"! the "Wedding"! Bongrand still listened to him without ceasing to smile. Barely a twinge of pain passed over his trembling lips.
'Good-day, dear master, said Naudet, who had drawn near. 'So you have come, like everybody else, to see my Fagerolles, eh? He no longer treated Bongrand in the wheedling, respectful manner of yore. And he spoke of Fagerolles as of a painter belonging to him, of a workman to whom he paid wages, and whom he often scolded.
Let us do the faithful and upright Bongrand the justice to say that before he re-entered the salon he had abandoned, not without deep regret for his son, the hope he had cherished of some day calling Ursula his daughter.
Bongrand considered that Ursula was not a relative of Doctor Minoret, but he felt that the whole spirit of legislation was against the foisting into families of illegitimate off-shoots.
The two old friends who still remained to her, the Abbe Chaperon and Monsieur Bongrand, the only visitors whom she received, were, in the midst of these inanimate objects representative of the past, like two living memories of her former life to which she attached her present by the love her godfather had blessed.
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