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"Let me see," said he; "I think I am sure that I have heard or that I have read I cannot say which some story about a Mademoiselle de Chalusse. It was something terrible, wasn't it?" "Terrible, indeed. But what I was speaking of happened a long time ago twenty-five or twenty-six years ago, at the very least. I was still in my own part of the country at Besancon.
The servants at the Hotel de Chalusse, one of the most magnificent mansions in the Rue de Courcelles in Paris, were assembled in the porter's lodge, a little building comprising a couple of rooms standing on the right hand side of the great gateway.
At last, however, when he could talk as well as you and I, and walk straight, I took him back to the Hotel de Chalusse." "That was right. But didn't you have some business to transact with him?" "That's been arranged, monsieur; the agreement has been signed. The count will have the best of funerals the finest hearse out, with six horses, twenty-four mourning coaches a grand display, in fact.
But she stepped back with outstretched arms as if to protect the escritoire. "No," she exclaimed, "no the escritoire shall not be touched. I will not permit it " "But, mademoiselle," insisted the doctor, "your father " "The Count de Chalusse is not my father!" Dr. Jodon was greatly disconcerted by Mademoiselle Marguerite's vehemence. "Ah!" said he, in three different tones, "ah! ah!"
"But resistance is only possible when you are attacked; and M. de Chalusse did not even allude to the subject perhaps because affairs had not yet been satisfactorily arranged between the marquis and himself possibly because he wished to deprive me of the power to oppose him by taking me unawares.
I am told that the Count de Chalusse entertained a very lively affection for you. Are you sure that he has not taken care to provide for your future? Are you sure that he has not left a will?" The girl shook her head. "He made one in my favor some time ago," she replied. "I saw it; he gave it to me to read; but it was destroyed a fortnight after my arrival here, and in compliance with my request."
When one has never tasted real pleasure, one cannot realize how gloomy one's life really is. No doubt, you were very unhappy alone with M. de Chalusse." "Oh! madame " "Tut! tut! my dear, I know what I am talking about. Wait until you have been introduced into society before you boast of the charms of solitude. Poor dear! I doubt if you have ever attended a ball in your whole life. No!
I was resolved to wed solely in accordance with the dictates of my heart; but I wished, and HOPED, that M. de Chalusse would give me, not a fortune, but a modest dowry. He had become more communicative than usual on money matters, and took no pains to conceal the fact that he was engaged in raising the largest possible amount of ready cash.
I was only certain of one point: the Count de Chalusse wished something, and these gentlemen were specifying other things in exchange. To each of their demands he answered: 'Yes, yes it's granted. That's understood. But at last he began to grow impatient, and in a voice which impressed one with the idea that he was accustomed to command, he exclaimed, 'I will do whatever you wish.
Mademoiselle Marguerite had been abandoned by her mother when only five or six months old; it is only a few years since M. de Chalusse, after a thousand vain attempts, at last succeeded in finding her." It was no longer on Pascal's account, but on his own, that Baron Trigault listened with breathless attention. "How very strange," he exclaimed, in default of something better to say.
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