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I also know that my friend, the proud nobleman, Maxime de Brevan, who has been received in the most aristocratic salons of Paris, has been a galley-slave, condemned for forgery." Henrietta had risen, filled with terror. "Then," she stammered, "this wretched man was" "Chevassat's son; yes, madam," replied Mrs. Bertolle. "Oh!" exclaimed the poor girl, "oh!"
When they knew the keys of their safe to be in the hands of an honest man, whose family and mode of life were well known, they slept soundly. Justin Chevassat's patron was thus sleeping soundly for ten months, when one Sunday he was specially in need of certain bonds which Justin used to keep in one of the drawers of his desk.
Chevassat's visit, and after having played the part assigned to her by the old dealer, she rose, and, although quite exhausted yet, took her place at the window to watch for the proper time. Four o'clock struck; and, as it was growing dark, the concierge came out, with a light in his hand, and went up the big staircase to light the lamps. "Now is the time!" she said to herself.
Would they still be remembered in a land where they had once been all powerful? Most assuredly they would. Would people take the trouble to inquire minutely what had become of the marquis and his five sons? As assuredly not. "Chevassat's plot was based upon these calculations.
Ten times I might have done his business most effectively; but I did not care. I tried in vain to think of Chevassat's big promises; at the last moment, my heart always failed me. The thing was too much for me. And the proof of it is, that I missed him at ten yards' distance.
"That is the place I must go to," Henrietta said to herself. But how was she to find one? "Well, I'll find it some way," she said. So she went down, to Mrs. Chevassat's great astonishment, but without answering her questions, where she was going to in such a hurry.
She lost two months' existence, the very time, perhaps, that was needed till Daniel's return. Still the day when the rent was due came, and she paid her hundred francs. The second day after that, she was once more without money, and, according to Mrs. Chevassat's elegant expression, forced to "live on her poor possessions."
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