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Madame Ferraud is one of our clients." "Come, the case is remanded till to-morrow," said Boucard. "To work, gentlemen. The deuce is in it; we get nothing done here. Finish copying that appeal; it must be handed in before the sitting of the Fourth Chamber, judgment is to be given to-day. Come, on you go!"
A Dutchman, a bullet-headed clod from Bavaria, the land of sausage, beer, and daschunds; and this shall be written Napoleon IV! Ye gods, what farce, comedy, vaudeville! But, there was always that hope: if he found the money he would divide it. So, kowtow, kowtow! Opera bouffe!" Breitmann shuddered. M. Ferraud, feeling that shudder under his hand, relaxed his shoulders. He had won! "An empire!
My name is Herman Stüler . . . if I live. There is not a drop of French blood in my veins. Breitmann died on the field in the Soudan, and I took his papers." His eyes burned into Ferraud's. "Perhaps that would be the best way," replied M. Ferraud pensively. "What shall I do with the money? It is under the bed." "Keep it.
But for the want of a clear head I should be a rich man to-day. Who thought he would come back?" "I did," answered M. Ferraud. "You?" "With pleasure! I brought him back; thank me for your empty pockets, Monsieur. If I were you I should not land at Marseilles. Try Livarno, by all means, Livarno."
At the time of Comte Chabert's death, M. Ferraud was a young man of six-and-twenty, without a fortune, of pleasing appearance, who had had his successes, and whom the Faubourg Saint-Germain had adopted as doing it credit; but Madame la Comtesse Chabert had managed to turn her share of her husband's fortune to such good account that, after eighteen months of widowhood, she had about forty thousand francs a year.
"Why, monsieur, is not the Comtesse Ferraud my wife? She has thirty thousand francs a year, which belong to me, and she will not give me a son.
Ferraud, if you wish; but I advise you to remain with us. It will be something to tell in your old age." Cathewe glanced across to Fitzgerald, as if to ask: "Do you know anything about this?" Fitzgerald, catching the sense of this mute inquiry, nodded affirmatively. "Corsica is a beautiful place," said Hildegarde. "I spent a spring in Ajaccio."
Two millions of shining money, gold, silver, and English notes! And he laughed again as he recalled M. Ferraud, caught in a trap. He was clever, but not clever enough. What a stroke! To make prisoners of the party on their return, to carry the girl away into the mountains! Would any of them think of treasures, of conspiracies, with her as a hostage? He thought not.
"Oh!" said Ferraud, in protest; though this was the very thing he desired. "Not a word!" The admiral summoned the butler, who was the general factotem at The Pines, and gave a dozen orders. "Ah, you Americans!" laughed M. Ferraud, pyramiding his fingers. "You leave us breathless." "Your book has delighted me. But I'm afraid my collection will not pay you for your trouble."
At a word from Derville to the sergeant he was allowed to take his client into the room, where Hyacinthe wrote a few lines, and addressed them to the Comtesse Ferraud. "Send her that," said the soldier, "and you will be paid your costs and the money you advanced.
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