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"Is it from an unknown woman?" "Unknown? yes! a D'Este, in Havre; evidently a feigned name." Canalis passed the letter to La Briere. The little poem, with all its hidden enthusiasms, in short, poor Modeste's heart, was disdainfully handed over, with the gesture of a spoiled dandy.
If my imaginary cousin had not told me the duchess had seen her fifty summers, I should have thought I was over-generous in giving her thirty; she has never known a winter, that duchess!" "Yes," said La Briere, "she is a cameo preserved because it is stone.
"He is loyal and chivalrous, and capable of getting rid, under Modeste's influence, of those affectations which Madame de Chaulieu has taught him." "You are a fine fellow," said the hunchback; "but is he capable of loving, will he love her?" "I don't know," answered La Briere. "Has she said anything about me?" he asked after a moment's silence.
"Ah, Canalis, I have never really known you till this moment." "Did you expect to? It takes some time to go round the world," replied the poet with his pompous irony. "But think," said La Briere, "of this enormous fortune." "Ah, my friend, is it not well invested in you?" cried Canalis, accompanying the words with a charming gesture. "Melchior," said La Briere, "I am yours for life and death."
Modeste's arrival at Rosembray made a certain sensation in the avenue when the carriage with the liveries of France came in sight, accompanied by the grand equerry, the colonel, Canalis, and La Briere on horseback, preceded by an outrider in full dress, and followed by six servants, among whom were the Negroes and the mulatto, and the britzka of the colonel for the two waiting-women and the luggage.
At this instant, the Comte de La Bastie was announced; the two young men rose at once, and La Briere hastened forward to present Canalis. "I wished to return the visit that you paid me in Paris," said the count to the young lawyer, "and I knew that by coming here I should have the double pleasure of greeting one of our great living poets." "Great!
After reaching that point she was able, in the character of uninterested spectator, to take part in what she was pleased to call the "farce of the suitors," a performance in which she herself was about to play the role of heroine. She particularly set before her mind the satisfaction of humiliating Monsieur de La Briere.
Toward the last of February all the deeds for the estates in Provence were signed by Latournelle, and about that time the family of La Bastie obtained the marked honor of the king's signature to the marriage contract and to the ordinance transmitting their title and arms to La Briere, who henceforth took the name of La Briere-La Bastie.
"Do you know, La Briere," said Canalis, filling Butscha's glass, "that this fellow would make a capital secretary to the embassy?" "And oust his chief!" cried the dwarf flinging a look at Canalis whose insolence was lost in the gurgling of carbonic acid gas. "I've little enough gratitude and quite enough scheming to get astride of your shoulders.
"Poor boy!" cried the poet, laughing, "he's a clever fellow, that father." "I have pledged my honor that I will take you to Havre," said La Briere, piteously. "My dear fellow," said Canalis, "if it is a question of your honor you may count on me. I'll ask for leave of absence for a month." "Modeste is so beautiful!" exclaimed La Briere, in a despairing tone. "You will crush me out of sight.
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