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"'The widow will soon feel a great difference. "'What do you mean? "'Well, d'Aldrigger was so fond of his wife. Now, don't laugh, people are looking at us. "'Look here comes du Tillet; he is very late. The epistle is just beginning. "'He will marry the eldest girl in all probability. "'Is it possible? asked Desroches; 'why, he is tied more than ever to Mme. Roguin. "'Tied he?
"'Well, Nucingen knows that du Tillet has a lot of money; he wants to marry him to Malvina; but du Tillet is shy of Nucingen. To a looker-on, the game is good fun. "'What! exclaimed Werbrust, 'is she old enough to marry? How quickly we grow old! "'Malvina d'Aldrigger is quite twenty years old, my dear fellow. Old d'Aldrigger was married in 1800.
And so with visions of gaieties, dances, music, pretty dresses, and social success, the Baroness was lulled to sleep and pleasant dreams in the blue, silk-curtained bed in the charming room next to the chamber in which Jean Baptiste, Baron d'Aldrigger, had breathed his last but two nights ago. "Here in a few words is the Baron's history.
He persuaded the Tuileries that this was done out of devotion, and about the same time he and du Tillet between them swallowed down three millions belonging to that great scamp Philippe Bridau. "Quite lately our Baron was walking along the Rue de Rivoli on his way to the Bois when he met the Baroness d'Aldrigger under the colonnade.
Wirth saw a husband for Isaure, and accordingly proceeded to surround Godefroid with the mazy circumlocutions of his Alsacien's geniality, that most adhesive of all known varieties of bird-lime. "Mme. d'Aldrigger was radically 'improper. She thought love the most natural thing imaginable.
"An only daughter and an heiress, spoilt by her father and mother, spoilt by her husband and the city of Strasbourg, spoilt still by two daughters who worshiped their mother, the Baroness d'Aldrigger indulged a taste for rose color, short petticoats, and a knot of ribbon at the point of the tightly-fitting corselet bodice.
The Baron de Nucingen felt a lively regard for the d'Aldrigger family; he was prepared, if things went amiss, to cover the Baroness' account with his best securities, to wit, some shares in the argentiferous lead-mines, but the application must come from the lady. "'Poor Nucingen! said the Baroness. 'What can have become of him? "'He is in Belgium.
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