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Updated: May 23, 2025
What heart has failed to throb at the recital of the last hours of the woman whom no entreaties could soften, and who would never see her husband after nobly paying his debts? Madame d'Aiglemont saw death beside her and was saved only by my brother's care. Society and science are accomplices in crimes for which there are no assizes.
"Oh! if ever you have been merciful in your life, for pity's sake tell me her name." "She is the Marquise d'Aiglemont." "I will take lessons from her; she had managed to make a peer of France of that eminently ordinary person her husband, and a dullard into a power in the land. But, pray tell me this, did Lord Grenville die for her sake, do you think, as some women say?" "Possibly.
The two ladies were sitting by the window which looked out upon the street, and Julie was looking thoughtful again, when some one went by on horseback. "There goes one of your victims," said the Marquise. Mme. d'Aiglemont looked up; dismay and surprise blended in her face. "He is a young Englishman, the Honorable Arthur Ormand, Lord Grenville's eldest son. His history is interesting.
"Yes, it is wonderful," she said, and out in the open air her voice sounded weak and faint to the last degree. Evidently she had had her way with her father, to her misfortune. "Would you not like to live here, Julie?" "Yes; here or anywhere," she answered listlessly. "Do you feel ill?" asked Colonel d'Aiglemont.
"Whom should I bring with me but a woman who is devoted to Lucien and willing to help us?" Asie had hit the truth. Madame de Serizy, who was regarded as one of the most fickle of fashionable women, had had an attachment of ten years' standing for the Marquis d'Aiglemont.
Look here, borrow twenty thousand francs for me, and I will set out to make my fortune in America, like my friend d'Aiglemont when Nucingen cleaned him out." "You!" cried Josepha. "Nay, leave morals to work-a-day folks, to raw recruits, to the worrrthy citizens who have nothing to boast of but their virtue. You!
More than this, in vain did Mme. d'Aiglemont nerve herself to come between Moina and Alfred de Vandenesse with a terrible word, knowing beforehand that she should not succeed; knowing that the strong reason which ought to separate them would carry no weight; that she should humiliate herself vainly in her daughter's eyes.
She meant to marry him to a demoiselle d'Aiglemont with a fortune of twelve thousand francs a year; to whose hand the name of Portenduere and the farm at Bordieres enabled him to pretend. This narrow but judicious plan, which would have carried the family to a second generation, was already balked by events.
The doctor was called upon to decline the overtures of Madame d'Aiglemont, who was thinking of Ursula for her eldest son. Six months later, in spite of the secrecy the doctor and Ursula maintained on this subject, Savinien heard of it. Touched by so much delicacy, he made use of the incident in another attempt to vanquish his mother's obstinacy; but she merely replied:
"Mme. de Saint-Hereen has delightful 'At Homes' for her mother," said a rosebud. "All Paris goes to her salon. "And no one pays any attention to the Marquise," returned the parasite. "The fact is that Mme. d'Aiglemont is never alone," remarked a coxcomb, siding with the young women. "In the morning," the old observer continued in a discreet voice, "in the morning dear Moina is asleep.
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