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To commence selling must be to go on selling. This, as a plan, included restitution to Aurora; but it meant also dissolution to the Grandissimes, for should their sold titles be pronounced bad, then the titles of other lands would be bad; many an asset among M. Grandissime's memoranda would shrink into nothing, and the meagre proceeds of the Grandissime estates, left to meet the strain without the aid of Aurora's accumulated fortune, would founder in a sea of liabilities; while should these titles, after being parted with, turn out good, his incensed kindred, shutting their eyes to his memoranda and despising his exhibits, would see in him only the family traitor, and he would go about the streets of his town the subject of their implacable denunciation, the community's obloquy, and Aurora's cold evasion.
The clerk disappeared, and Joseph Frowenfeld paused an instant in the door and then advanced, with a buoyant good-morning. "Good-morning," responded M. Grandissime. He smiled and extended his hand, yet there was a mechanical and preoccupied air that was not what Joseph felt justified in expecting. "How can I serve you, Mr. Frhowenfeld?" asked the merchant, glancing through into the counting-room.
But presently, M. Grandissime uttered a low ejaculation and spurred his horse toward a tree hard by, preparing, as he went, to fasten his rein to an overhanging branch. Frowenfeld, agreeable to his beckon, imitated the movement. "I fear he intends to drown himself," whispered M. Grandissime, as they hurriedly dismounted. "Who? Not " "Yes, your landlord, as you call him.
Whenever the public mind approached that sad state of public sentiment in which sanctity signs politicians' memorials and chivalry breaks into the gun-shops, a good place to feel the thump of the machinery was in Maspero's. The first man Frowenfeld saw as he entered was M. Valentine Grandissime.
The latter instead of taking office, as an ancient Grandissime should have done to the dismay and mortification of his kindred, established himself in a prosperous commercial business. The elder bought houses and became a rentier.
Agricola's consent was given with malicious promptness, and as Bras-Coupé's fetters fell off it was decreed that, should he fill his office efficiently, there should be a wedding on the rear veranda of the Grandissime mansion simultaneously with the one already appointed to take place in the grand hall of the same house six months from that present day.
There are two of the name, you know, partners brothers. Which of but it makes no difference; before either of them sees this assassin she is going to be a lump of nothing!" The next word astonished every one. It was Charlie Mandarin who spoke. "Let her go!" "Let her go!" said Jean-Baptiste Grandissime; "give her a run for life. Old woman, rise up. We propose to let you go. Can you run?
She made a poor attempt to withdraw her hand, abandoned the effort, and looked up savagely through a pair of overflowing eyes, demanding: "Mais, fo' w'y you di' n' wan' to sesso?" M. Grandissime smiled argumentatively. "I have said so a hundred times, in every way but in words." She lifted her head proudly, and bowed like a queen. "Mais, you see 'Sieur Grandissime, you bin meg one mizteg."
Grandissime," said the apothecary, as his landlord sank back again into his seat, "I know you are a broken-hearted man." The quadroon laid his fist upon his heart and looked up. "And being broken-hearted, you are thus specially fitted for a work of patient and sustained self-sacrifice. You have only those things to lose which grief has taught you to despise ease, money, display.
If you insist to know who make dat pigshoe de hartis' stan' bif-ore you!" "It is your work?" "'Tis de work of me, Raoul Innerarity, cousin to de disting-wish Honoré Grandissime. I swear to you, sir, on stack of Bible' as 'igh as yo' head!" He smote his breast. "Do you wish to put it in the window?" "Yes, seh." "For sale?"
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