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M. de Brevan's face no longer expressed astonishment; he looked absolutely bewildered. "What!" he cried out, "could you seriously think of undertaking a trip to America?" "Why not?" "To be sure, my dear friend, you are, in all sincerity, too naive for our age. What! have you not yet been able to divine Miss Brandon's plan? And yet it is patent enough.
"He still said, 'I appoint Miss Ernestine Bergot my residuary legatee'; but he had written underneath, 'on condition that she shall pay to each of my sisters the sum of a hundred and fifty thousand francs. This was more than three-fourths of his whole fortune. "When she arrived, therefore, that night, at Brevan's rooms, her first words were, "'We have been robbed! Planix was a wretch!
Henrietta did not know what to think of it. She could not doubt that this Megsera pursued some mysterious aim with all her foolish talk; but she could not possibly guess what that aim could be. And still that was not all that kept her thoughts busy. What frightened her most of all was the feeling that she was evidently altogether at M. de Brevan's mercy.
And, fearfully excited, he asked her, "Did I hear right? Did you say the concierge of that house in Water Street, and his wife, were called Chevassat?" "Yes, why?" "Because Maxime de Brevan's real name is Justin Chevassat." Papa Ravinet started up as if he had been shot. "What," he said, "you know that?" "I learned it three months ago.
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