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Both were watched by a well-concealed circle of spies. Brodamonte forced Ferrand's system of restitution, under Rudolph's directions, who had succeeded in obtaining from the notary by a trick papers which proved his crimes and guilt. This was his punishment.
Mademoiselle Ferrand's father is apparently described by d'Hozier as 'Ferrand, Ecuyer, Sieur des Marres et de Ronville en Normandie. Many of Charles's letters are addressed to 'Mademoiselle Luci, SISTER of 'La Grandemain. Now Madame de Vasse seems, from a passage in the Duc de Luynes's 'Memoires, to have been the only daughter of her father, M. de Peze.
Locket took decidedly too many things for granted, and the explorer of Sir Dominick Ferrand's irregularities remembered afresh how clear he had been after all about his indisposition to traffic in them.
The story was a valuable commentary. His thoughts were brusquely interrupted; looking in Ferrand's face, he saw to his dismay tears rolling down his cheeks. "I 've suffered too much," he stammered; "what do I care now what becomes of me?" Shelton was disconcerted; he wished 'to say something sympathetic, but, being an Englishman, could only turn away his eyes.
He went on to tell her of Ferrand's starving four days sooner than face a pawnbroker; and, reading the letter over before addressing it, the faces of the three ladies round their snowy cloth arose before him Antonia's face, so fair and calm and wind-fresh; her mother's face, a little creased by time and weather; the maiden aunt's somewhat too thin-and they seemed to lean at him, alert and decorous, and the words "That's rather nice!" rang in his ears.
"Is it not about this time that he came to live here?" "Yes, sir. He wished for a room near the Temple or the Arsenal; there was one to be let here, it suited him." "And you never thought of confiding your sorrows to M. Germain?" asked Rudolph. "No, sir; he was also a dupe of M. Ferrand's; he said he was hard and exacting, but he thought him the most honest man in the world.
Of course, I didn't remember his office-boy from Adam, but that fact never occurred to me, then. I went right along with the boy, and he talked so volubly that I didn't notice we had gotten into the wrong elevator the express until its first stop, seven floors above Mr. Ferrand's.
He felt that the young foreigner was making a convenient bow to property, but he had more respect for the sarcastic smile on the lips of Ferrand's heart. It was not long before the inevitable change came in the spirit of the situation; more and more was Shelton conscious of a quaint uneasiness in the very breathing of the household. "Curious fellow you've got hold of there, Shelton," Mr.
Everything seemed leagued against me; the banker had left for Paris; I flew back, I got my money; I went to M. Ferrand's all was discovered. "But this is only a part of my misfortunes; now the notary accuses me of having stolen fifteen thousand francs in notes, which were, he said, in the drawer with the two thousand francs in gold. It is a false accusation, an infamous lie.
"This is not all," said Louise, after a moment's reflection; "this sad tale concerns some one who has rendered me a great service who has been for my father and family full of kindness this person was employed at M. Ferrand's when I went; I have sworn not to mention the name." "If you mean Francois Germain, be easy; his secret will be kept by your father and myself," said Rudolph.
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