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"I know you will not be indifferent to her future. Her relations are considering it, and there is the programme; she ought to marry a notary whose practice should be in the chief town of an arrondisement. This notary, who would of course be elected deputy in three years, should settle on a dower of a hundred thousand francs on her." "She can do better than that," said Bongrand coldly.
"Whoever it is will know I am dying," said Ursula; "and will cease to trouble me." The abbe, Bongrand, and Savinien were lost in conjectures and suspicions.
"I am glad I cannot go down into the salon," she said to Monsieur Bongrand and the abbe, who left her as little as possible; "He would come, and I am now unworthy of the looks with which he blessed me. Do you think he will suspect me?" "If Savinien does not discover the author of these infamies he means to get the assistance of the Paris police," said Bongrand.
"No, my dear friend," said Bongrand. "Listen; the certificates in the Funds are issued in series, as many series as there are letters in the alphabet; and each number bears the letter of its series. But the certificates which are made out 'to bearer' cannot have a letter; they are not in any person's name.
Minoret looked alternately at the two men to see if the priest had betrayed the dreams; but the abbe's face was unmoved, expressing only a calm sadness which reassured the guilty man. "And it is the more surprising," went on Monsieur Bongrand, "because you ought to be filled with satisfaction.
You are lord of Rouvre and all those farms and mills and meadows and with your investments in the Funds, you have an income of one hundred thousand francs " "I haven't anything in the Funds," cried Minoret, hastily. "Pooh," said Bongrand; "this is just as it was about your son's love for Ursula, first he denied it, and now he asks her in marriage.
"Are there sacrifices when one truly loves? Is it any merit to refuse the son of a man we all despise? Others may make virtues of their dislikes, but that ought not to be the morality of a girl brought up by a de Jordy, and the abbe, and my dear godfather," she said, looking up at his portrait. Bongrand took Ursula's hand and kissed it.
Savinien and Bongrand urged on the workmen who were cleaning, painting, and otherwise renewing the tiny place, so that before the end of March Ursula was able to leave the inn and take up her abode in the ugly house; where, however, she found a bedroom exactly like the one she had left; for it was filled with all her furniture, claimed by the justice of peace when the seals were removed.
Bongrand looked at him again, straight in the eyes. Then he turned to his work, in which he became absorbed, making a movement with his herculean arms, as if he were breaking every bone of them to lift that little canvas which was so very light. And he muttered to himself: 'Confound it! how heavy it is! Never mind, I'll die at it rather than show a falling-off.
The old doctor thought over this remark so anxiously that the abbe and Monsieur Bongrand were troubled by the sorrowful expression of his face. "What pains you?" they said, when Ursula had left them. "Will she live?" replied the doctor. "Can so tender and delicate a flower endure the trials of the heart?" Nevertheless, the "little dreamer," as the abbe called her, was working hard.
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