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"But, M. Faucheux, there is also the service which belonged to my mother; all that massive plate which I did not wish to part with, on account of the associations connected with it." "Ah! madame, that would indeed be an excellent resource for those who, unlike your ladyship, might not be in a position to keep their plate. In chasing that they worked in solid metal.
Tell me their value, M. Faucheux." The jeweler took his magnifying-glass and scales, weighed and inspected them, and silently made his calculations. "These stones," he said, "must have cost your ladyship an income of forty thousand francs." "You value them at eight hundred thousand francs?" "Nearly so." "It is about what I imagined but the settings are not included?"
"The amount is entered in my books. Your ladyship is extremely methodical, I am aware." "Let us now turn to another subject," said Madame de Belliere; and she opened one of her jewel-boxes. "I recognize these emeralds," said M. Faucheux; "for it was I who had the setting of them. They are the most beautiful in the whole court.
They are the most beautiful in the whole court. No, I am mistaken; Madame de Chatillon has the most beautiful set; she had them from Messieurs de Guise; but your set madame, comes next." "What are they worth?" "Mounted?" "No; supposing I wished to sell them." "I know very well who would buy them," exclaimed M. Faucheux. "That is the very thing I ask. They could be sold, then?"
"But you do not intend to sell your diamonds, I suppose, madame?" exclaimed the bewildered jeweler. "Silence, M. Faucheux, do not disturb yourself about that; give me an answer simply. You are an honorable man, with whom my family has dealt for thirty years; you knew my father and mother, whom your own father and mother served.
"M. Faucheux, you will take away with you both the gold and silver plate. Melt it down, and return me its value in money, at once." "It shall be done, your ladyship." "You will be good enough to place the money in a chest, and direct one of your clerks to accompany the chest, and without my servants seeing him; and order him to wait for me in a carriage."
"I agree," said the marquise, eagerly; "return home and bring the sum in question in notes, as soon as possible." "Yes, madame, but for Heaven's sake " "Not a word, M. Faucheux. By the by, I was forgetting the silver plate. What is the value of that which I have?" "Fifty thousand francs, madame." "That makes a million," said the marquise to herself.
"But, M. Faucheux, there is also the service which belonged to my mother; all that massive plate which I did not wish to part with, on account of the associations connected with it." "Ah! madame, that would indeed be an excellent resource for those who, unlike your ladyship, might not be in position to keep their plate. In chasing that they worked in solid metal.
"But you do not intend to sell you diamonds, I suppose, madame?" exclaimed the bewildered jeweler. "Silence, M. Faucheux, do not disturb yourself about that; give me an answer simply. You are an honorable man, with whom my family has dealt for thirty years; you knew my father and mother, whom your own father and mother served.
On this occasion, however, she admired the size of the rubies and the brilliancy of the diamonds; she grieved over every blemish and every defect; she thought the gold light, and the stones wretched. The goldsmith, as he entered, found her thus occupied. "M. Faucheux," she said, "I believe you supplied me with my gold service?" "I did, your ladyship."
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