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I began, angrily; but Madame de Lanty, who was standing behind her husband, made me a gesture as if she would fall upon her knees; and reflecting that perhaps Marianina's future depended on the attitude I now took, I controlled myself and left the room without further words. The next morning, before I was out of bed, the Abbe Fontanon was announced to me.
"Speak; I am ready to hear!" As she said it she cast her eyes up to heaven. "Speak, Monsieur Fontanon." "For seven years Monsieur Granville has lived in sin with a concubine, by whom he has two children; and on this adulterous connection he has spent more than five hundred thousand francs, which ought to have been the property of his legitimate family."
One morning, on coming home from Mass, she sat down on a stone bench in the little garden, where the sun's kisses reminded her of the early days of her married life, and she looked back across the years to see wherein she might have failed in her duty as a wife and mother. She was broken in upon by the Abbe Fontanon in an almost indescribable state of excitement.
"'Well, gentlemen, you find yourselves compelled to dine with priests, said Comte Octave to his colleagues. 'I do not know whether Grandville can overcome his horror of a priest's gown "'It depends on the priest. "'One of them is my uncle, and the other is the Abbe Gaudron, said I. 'Do not be alarmed; the Abbe Fontanon is no longer second priest at Saint-Paul
"I see with pleasure, daughter," said Fontanon, "that you have pious sentiments; you have a sacred relic round your neck." Madame Crochard, with a feeble vagueness which seemed to show that she had not all her wits about her, pulled out the Imperial Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The memorial address will be delivered by Monsieur l'Abbe Fontanon."
Presently the one of these three sibyls who kept guard over the sick woman came shaking her head at the other anxious two, and said: "It is time we should be sending for the Abbe Fontanon. In another two hours she will neither have the wit nor the strength to write a line." Thereupon the toothless old cook went off, and returned with a man wearing a black gown.
At this critical moment Angelique looked at her future husband with such pure and innocent eyes, that Granville did not hesitate to give his word. A smile puckered the lips of the Abbe Fontanon, a pale man, who directed the consciences of this household. Mademoiselle Bontems, by a slight nod, seemed to promise that she would never take an unfair advantage of this freedom.
And to disgust me, and throw me off the track, had the mother invented this history of another love in which she seemed to make me play so mortifying a part? I may add that the intervention of the Abbe Fontanon authorizes such an interpretation.
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