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Updated: June 11, 2025
Summoned by telegraph, M. de Chalusse hastened to Lyons, and two days later I left Sainte-Marthe with jeers and opprobrious epithets ringing in my ears." Once before, that very morning, the magistrate had witnessed a display of the virile energy with which misfortune and suffering had endowed this proud but naturally timid girl.
Fortunately, she was very shrewd. She soon discovered that her husband knew everything, and she warned M. de Chalusse, thus saving his life." It is not at all remarkable that the Marquis de Valorsay should have failed to see any connection between his narrative and the baron's agitation.
The sisters all seemed to consider me a person of great importance. And yet I hesitated. "My indecision may seem absurd and hypocritical; but it was really sincere. My present situation was certainly by no means an enviable one. But the worst was over; my term as an apprentice had nearly expired, and my future seemed assured. My future! What could it be with the Count de Chalusse?
"I can confess now that I am slightly acquainted with the Count de Chalusse, and that I have frequently visited the house in the Rue de Courcelles, where he now resides." "You!" exclaimed the woman, taking a hasty inventory of M. Fortunat's toilette. "Yes, I on the part of my employer, understand.
"You are not in earnest," he exclaimed, "or you are ignorant of the fact that M. de Chalusse leaves perhaps twenty millions behind him." "My course is decided on, monsieur; irrevocably decided on." "Very well, madame; but it often happens that the court institutes inquiries for the heirs of large fortunes, and this may happen in your case."
At five he rose, kissed me gayly, and left the house on foot, telling me that he was confident of success, and that he did not expect to return before midnight." The poor child's firmness now gave way; her eyes filled with tears, and it was in a voice choked with sobs that she added, pointing to M. de Chalusse: "But at half-past six they brought him back as you see him now "
He scented some great family secret in the household, and he felt angry and humiliated that this secret had not been intrusted to his discretion. And if he had discovered nothing, it was because M. de Chalusse had been caution personified, as Madame Leon had declared.
It was to the house of his formidable associate that he repaired on leaving M. Wilkie; and in a single breath he told the marquis all that he knew, and the plans that he had formed. M. de Valorsay's astonishment must have been intense when he heard that Lia d'Argeles was a Chalusse, but he knew how to maintain his composure.
In less than a second, a thousand strange and contradictory suppositions darted through his brain. Who, then, could this girl be, if she were not Mademoiselle de Chalusse? What right had she in that house? How was it that she reigned as a sovereign there? Above all, why this angry outburst for no other apparent cause than a very natural and exceedingly insignificant request on his part?
But I knew that I was incapable of playing such a part I felt that I should somehow confess everything. My firmness imparted some resolution to M. de Chalusse. He exclaimed, with an oath, that I was right that he was weary of all this deception and concealment, and that he would make arrangements to have me near him. 'Yes, he concluded, embracing me, 'the die is cast, come what may!
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