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Updated: May 21, 2025
"In six months, mademoiselle, the masses who are made up of wicked Butschas could send all those grand dignities to the winds. Besides, what signifies nobility in these days? There are not a thousand real noblemen in France. The d'Herouvilles are descended from a tipstaff in the time of Robert of Normandy. You will have to put up with many a vexation from the old aunt with the furrowed face.
At this day there are names as famous as those of royal houses the Foix-Graillys, for instance, or the d'Herouvilles left to obscurity tantamount to extinction for want of money, the one power of the time. All which things Victurnien beheld entirely from his own point of view; he felt the equality that he saw in Paris as a personal wrong.
The king, anxious to restore the d'Herouvilles to their former splendor, had almost brought about this marriage, and when it failed he openly accused Mademoiselle d'Herouville of folly. In this way the aunt made the nephew ridiculous, and the nephew, in his own way, was not less absurd.
He lived honorably and he died well." Close to the shores of the lake they buried the vicomte and the last of the D'Hérouvilles. But only a roll of earth tells where they lie. Thus, a heart of sunshine and two hearts of storm repose in the eternal shadow, in peace, in silence. The same winds whisper mournfully above them, or sing joyously, or breathe in thunder.
Modeste, on the other hand, half-frightened at being thus pushed beyond her intentions by the d'Herouvilles, walked rather markedly apart with Melchior, when the company adjourned to the park after dinner.
At this day there are names as famous as those of royal houses the Foix-Graillys, for instance, or the d'Herouvilles left to obscurity tantamount to extinction for want of money, the one power of the time. All which things Victurnien beheld entirely from his own point of view; he felt the equality that he saw in Paris as a personal wrong.
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