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Updated: July 13, 2025
It may as well be said at once that his prevision was soon made good and that in the course of a fortnight old Mr. Probert and his daughters alighted successively at the Hotel de l'Univers et de Cheltenham. Francie's visit with her intended to Mme. de Brecourt bore exactly the fruit her admirer had foretold and was followed the very next day by a call from this lady.
You will no doubt have an opportunity to say to him whatever, my dear Francie, you CAN say! It will matter comparatively little that you may never be able to say it to your friend with every allowance SUZANNE DE BRECOURT. Francie looked at this letter and tossed it away without reading it.
The Baroness did not take her statement seriously, and on the grocer calling one day, said in jest to Amenaide, "You want a husband, there's one." But Amenaide was in earnest. She accepted the suggestion and, to the Baroness' surprise, insisted on taking the grocer as her husband. Reluctantly the good lady gave her consent, and in 1855 Amenaide Brecourt became the wife of the grocer Gras.
Mme. de Brecourt paid them another visit, a real official affair as she deemed it, accompanied by her husband; and the Baron de Douves and his wife, written to by Gaston, by his father and by Margaret and Susan, came up from the country full of anxious participation.
Gaston's forecast of his difficulties showed how finely he could analyse; but that was not rare enough in any French connexion to make his friend stare. He brought Suzanne de Brecourt, she was enchanted with the portrait of the little American, and the rest of the drama began to follow in its order.
"You will land your carcase in prison," retorted the husband. In both instances they were correct in their anticipations. One day the husband disappeared. For a short time Amenaide returned to her long-suffering protectress, and then she too disappeared. When she is heard of again, Amenaide Brecourt has become Jeanne de la Cour. Jeanne de la Cour is a courtesan.
After Mme. de Brecourt had been captivated the question of how Francie would be affected received in advance no consideration her brother would throw off the mask and convince her that she must now work with him. Another meeting would be managed for her with the girl in which each would appear in her proper character; and in short the plot would thicken.
Mme. de Brecourt came nearer, took both her hands now, drew her closer, seemed to supplicate her for some disproof, some antidote to the nightmare. "You shall see the paper; they've got it in the other room the most disgusting sheet. Margot's reading it to her husband; he can't read English, if you can call it English: such a style of the gutter!
What saved it was the hope he founded upon Mme. de Brecourt and the sense of how well he could answer to the others for Francie. He considered that Susan had in her first judgement of his young lady committed herself; she had really taken her in, and her subsequent protest when she found what was in his heart had been a denial which he would make her in turn deny.
"And you LET him about yourself? You gave him preposterous facts?" "I told him I told him I don't know what. It was for his paper he wants everything. It's a very fine paper," said the girl. "A very fine paper?" Mme. de Brecourt flushed, with parted lips. "Have you SEEN, have you touched the hideous sheet? Ah my brother, my brother!" she quavered again, turning away.
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