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Updated: May 16, 2025
Is it possible that it is a woman who has driven him into the precipice? And, if so, who is that woman?" Very different were Mlle. Gilberte's thoughts. The great calamity that befell her family had brought about the sudden realization of her hopes.
Tears of indignation filled Mlle. Gilberte's eyes. "Mme. Desclavettes," she exclaimed, "forgets something. She forgets that this gentleman dared to tell me that he proposed to settle upon the woman he marries a large fortune, of which his creditors would thus be cheated in case of his failure in business." She thought, in her simplicity, that a cry of indignation would rise at these words.
The sunlight poured down through the foliage which, as yet, was not very thick, and Jeanne wandered along the little paths unable to find the spot where she had sat with Julien. She turned into a long alley and, at the other end of it, saw two saddle-horses fastened to a tree; she recognized them at once; they were Gilberte's and Julien's.
"You would have all my gratitude, sir," faintly murmured Henriette, to whose memory suddenly rose the image of her husband, her dear Weiss, slaughtered down yonder at Bazeilles, filling her with invincible repugnance. Edmond, who had discreetly taken himself off on the arrival of the captain, now reappeared and whispered something in Gilberte's ear.
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