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"You were born a Corroy?" "Yes, monsieur, a noble family of Metz, where my husband belongs." "In what regiment did Monsieur de Reybert serve?" "The 7th artillery." "Good!" said the count, writing down the number. He had thought at one time of giving the management of the estate to some retired army officer, about whom he could obtain exact information from the minister of war.
The rancorous enmity which existed between the Reyberts and the Moreaus came from a wound inflicted by Madame de Reybert upon Madame Moreau on the first occasion when the latter assumed precedence over the former on her first arrival at Presles, the wife of the steward being determined not to allow her supremacy to be undermined by a woman nee de Corroy.
"Though Monsieur le comte," said Madame de Reybert in conclusion, "may have judged me unfavorably for the step I have taken unknown to my husband, he ought to be convinced that we have obtained this information about his steward in a natural and honorable manner; the most sensitive conscience cannot take exception to it." So saying, Madame de Reybert, nee de Corroy, stood erect as a pike-staff.
There she asked with such earnestness to see the count that although she was sent away at nine o'clock, he having then gone to bed, she was ushered into his study the next morning at seven. "Monsieur," she said to the cabinet-minister, "we are incapable, my husband and I, of writing anonymous letters, therefore I have come to see you in person. I am Madame de Reybert, nee de Corroy.
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