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Updated: July 9, 2025
He removed the covering from M. de Courtornieu's face he was almost compelled to use force to do it examined the patient with evident anxiety, then ordered mustard plasters, applications of ice to the head, leeches, and a potion, for which a servant was to gallop to Montaignac at once. All was bustle and confusion. When the physician left the sick-room, Mme. Blanche followed him.
Had Marie-Anne, at that moment, been within the reach of Mlle. de Courtornieu's voice, she would certainly have learned the secret of her former friend's anger and hatred. But fate willed it otherwise. At least three hundred yards of rough ground separated the place where Mlle. Blanche had stationed herself, from the Lacheneur cottage.
"I shall see nothing of the kind, for a very simple reason. I have the letter now in my pocket. The abbe gave it to me in exchange for my word of honor." M. de Courtornieu's exclamation proved that he considered the abbe an egregious fool. "What!" he exclaimed. "You hold the proof, and But this is madness!
Blanche's will into the midst of a discussion, he was really disgusted with the ridiculous and intense greediness of M. de Courtornieu's noble guests. Decorations, fortune, honors, power they desired everything. They were satisfied that their pure devotion deserved the most munificent rewards.
No; but it had grown cold, and a slight coating of grease had formed over the top. Marie-Anne took the spoon, skimmed the bouillon, and then stirred it up for some time, to divide the greasy particles. After she had done this she drank the liquid, put the bowl back upon the mantel, and resumed her work. It was done. The denouement no longer depended upon Blanche de Courtornieu's will.
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