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"Therefore it is understood you intend to relinquish everything; you will even abandon your proposed union with Mademoiselle Claire d'Arlange? You forget that for two years I have in vain constantly expressed my disappointment of this marriage." "No, sir. I have seen Mademoiselle Claire; I have explained my unhappy position to her. Whatever happens, she has sworn to be my wife."
"Oh!" he said in a loud voice, as though encouraging himself, "at the Palais, all will be unravelled." M. Daburon had been surprised at Claire's visit. M. de Commarin was still more so, when his valet whispered to him that Mademoiselle d'Arlange desired a moment's conversation with him.
Madame d'Arlange conceived a violent friendship for him, and became eloquent in his praises. "A most charming young man," she declared, "delicate and sensible! What a pity he is not born!" I wish him well, and will do all I can to push him forward." The strongest proof of friendship he received from her was, that she condescended to pronounce his name like the rest of the world.
Having hastily written the note he handed it to his valet, and ordered him to send at once to Madame d'Arlange, He then asked me to pass into the next room, which was his library." "One word," interrupted the old fellow; "was he troubled on seeing the letters?" "Not the least in the world.
Inquiry resulted in the discovery that he passed nearly all his evenings at the house of the Marchioness d'Arlange. The surprise was as great as it was natural. This dear marchioness was, or rather is, for she is still in the land of the living, a personage whom one would consider rather out of date. She is surely the most singular legacy bequeathed us by the eighteenth century.
"Ah! well," interrupted Mademoiselle d'Arlange, in a voice filled with emotion, "I assert, I repeat, that justice is deceived. Yes," she persisted, in answer to the magistrate's gesture of denial, "yes, he is innocent. I am sure of it; and I would proclaim it, even were the whole world to join with you in accusing him.
Gaston and Valentine had only seen each other once, but seeing was to love; and, as the time passed, their love grew stronger, until at last the fatality which had presided over their first meeting brought them once more together. They both happened to be spending the day with the old Duchess d'Arlange, who had returned to the neighborhood to sell her property.
Lubin, his valet, heard him say: "I am hesitating too much;" and a few moments later, "I must make up my mind." Shortly afterwards he began writing. He then gave Lubin a letter to carry to Mademoiselle Claire d'Arlange, with orders to deliver it only to herself or to Mademoiselle Schmidt, the governess.
So long as you addressed me as a friend, you found me kind and gentle. Now it is the magistrate to whom you speak: and it is the magistrate who answers, 'Prove it." "My word, sir, " "Prove it!" Mademoiselle d'Arlange rose slowly, casting upon the magistrate a look full of astonishment and suspicion. "Would you, then, be glad, sir," she asked, "to find Albert guilty?
From time to time, especially after some exceptionally bad speculation, she confesses that what she fears most is to die in a pauper's bed. A friend of M. Daburon's presented him one evening to the Marchioness d'Arlange, having dragged him to her house in a mirthful mood, saying, "Come with me, and I will show you a phenomenon, a ghost of the past in flesh and bone."
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