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"I have two hundred votes?" said Albert, standing stupid with amazement, after starting to his feet as if shot up by a spring. "You have those of Monsieur de Chavoncourt," said the Abbe. "How?" said Albert. "You will marry Mademoiselle Sidonie de Chavoncourt." "Never!" "You will marry Mademoiselle Sidonie de Chavoncourt," the priest repeated coldly.
If we were known to have meddled in election matters, we should be eaten up alive by the Puritans of the Left who do worse and blamed by some of our own party, who want everything. Madame de Chavoncourt has no suspicion of my share in all this. I have confided in no one but Madame de Watteville, whom we may trust as we trust ourselves."
Monsieur de Chavoncourt was not wholly trusted by his own party, but seemed to the Moderates the best man to choose; they preferred the triumph of his half-hearted opinions to the acclamation of a Republican who should combine the votes of the enthusiasts and the patriots.
The votes for Monsieur de Chavoncourt, added to the eighty votes the real number at the disposal of the Prefecture, would carry the election, if only the Prefet could succeed in gaining over a few of the Radicals. A hundred and sixty votes were not recorded: those of Monsieur de Grancey's following and the Legitimists.
"Is he then so extraordinary?" asked Madame de Chavoncourt. "Certainly, madame," replied the Vicar-General. "Well, tell us about it," said Madame de Watteville.
Rosalie, who was intimate with the Chavoncourt girls, knew that the three young men had no secrets from each other. She reflected that if Monsieur de Soulas should repeat her words, it would be to his two companions.
Sending his card to the Judges instead of calling in person! What a blunder! And so, three days after, Savaron had ceased to exist. He took as his servant old Monsieur Galard's man Galard being dead Jerome, who can cook a little. Albert Savaron was all the more completely forgotten, because no one had seen him or met him anywhere." "Then, does he not go to mass?" asked Madame de Chavoncourt.
By half-past eleven only fifteen persons remained, among them Madame de Chavoncourt and the Abbe de Godenars, another Vicar-General, a man of about forty, who hoped for a bishopric, the two Chavoncourt girls, and Monsieur de Vauchelles, the Abbe de Grancey, Rosalie, Amedee de Soulas, and a retired magistrate, one of the most influential members of the upper circle of Besancon, who had been very eager for Albert's election.
Some one has told Madame de Chavoncourt that she will do better by getting her daughter married than by sending her husband to waste his money in Paris. That some one manages Madame de Chavoncourt, and Madame de Chavoncourt manages her husband." "That is enough, my dear Abbe. I understand.
I should be broken-hearted at seeing that fine piece of the great de Watteville's work destroyed." "The devil!" thought Amedee, as he left the house. "The heiress is not such a fool as her mother thinks her." Monsieur de Chavoncourt is a Royalist, of the famous 221.
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