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Updated: June 16, 2025
'I received it from Monsieur Mangier in advance, said Hector in hasty reply to that look, blurting out in some degree inadvertently the assertion which he had been thinking would be the most feasible solution of his sudden riches, since he had been so peremptorily forbidden to mention M. Derville's name.
"Here she is," answered Simonnin. "So you are not deaf, you young rogue!" said Chabert, taking the gutter-jumper by the ear and twisting it, to the delight of the other clerks, who began to laugh, looking at the Colonel with the curious attention due to so singular a personage. Comte Chabert was in Derville's private room at the moment when his wife came in by the door of the office.
"If the Spaniard has gone away, you have nothing to fear," said Contenson to Peyrade, remarking on the perfect peace they lived in. "But if he is not gone?" observed Peyrade. "He took one of my men at the back of the chaise; but at Blois, my man having to get down, could not catch the chaise up again." Five days after Derville's return, Lucien one morning had a call from Rastignac.
But the story of the school is on the whole sunshiny and prosperous, and Marie Derville's young readers will follow with delight the career of these prim little beings, so much more governed than themselves, as they go picnicking on the sea-beach for mussels, make flannels for the cholera-patients of a fishing village, or learn to recite the fable of "The Country Rat" without making it all one word in their hurry.
About three months after this interview, at night, in Derville's room, the notary commissioned to advance the half-pay on Derville's account to his eccentric client, came to consult the attorney on a serious matter, and began by begging him to refund the six hundred francs that the old soldier had received.
As the young girl spoke, Derville's dilated gaze rested with fascinated intensity upon her excited countenance, and he hardly seemed to breathe. 'It was you, mademoiselle, said Jeanne, 'who called on me, and remained as you describe.
When Mme. de Grandlieu returned to France with the Royal family, she came to Paris, and at first lived entirely on the pension allowed her out of the Civil List by Louis XVIII. an intolerable position. The Hotel de Grandlieu had been sold by the Republic. It came to Derville's knowledge that there were flaws in the title, and he thought that it ought to return to the Vicomtesse.
'This way, if you please. Bertrand, greatly surprised, followed the ship-broker to a lane close by a dark, solitary locality, which suggested an unpleasant misgiving, very pleasantly relieved by Derville's first words.
But at one o'clock his broker informed him that Mademoiselle Esther van Bogseck had sold the bond bearing thirty thousand francs interest on Friday last, and had just received the money. "But, Monsieur le Baron, Derville's head-clerk called on me just as I was settling this transfer; and after seeing Mademoiselle Esther's real names, he told me she had come into a fortune of seven millions."
'A clerk of Monsieur Derville's has been taken into custody this very morning on suspicion of having stolen this very note. Poor Bertrand! He felt as if seized with vertigo; and a stunned, chaotic sense of mortal peril shot through his brain, as Marie's solemn warning with respect to Derville rose up like a spectre before him. 'I have heard of that circumstance, said Dufour.
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