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Updated: October 18, 2025
M. and Mme. de Grandville begged the Councillor to make use of their carriage, adding very obligingly that they themselves would walk. "Who can the lady be?" inquired the magistrate, looking towards the strange figure. "People think that she comes from Moulins," answered M. de Grandville.
As she said the word loved she turned with a gracious look to Monsieur de Grandville, who was touched to tears by this mark of feeling. Silence fell for a few moments on every one. The doctors wondered by what occult power this woman could still keep her feet, suffering as she must have suffered.
MM. de Grandville and de Serizy had trusted to the Count to make the preliminary examination of the papers relating to the matter. To avoid the necessity for carrying all the papers to M. de Serizy, as president of the commission, it was decided that they should meet first in the Rue Payenne.
When Monsieur de Grandville, then a young man of twenty-five, whom she declined to take as a husband, kissed her hand with an earnest expression of regret, the new bishop noticed the strange manner in which the black pupil of Veronique's eyes suddenly spread over the blue of the iris, reducing it to a narrow circle. The eye betrayed unmistakably some violent inward emotion.
"Had I been unsuccessful, painful, fatal as the disappointment would have been, I should have resigned the lady to you without a struggle." "That shows the difference between a gentleman and a parvenu," retorted St. Prix. "A parvenu!" cried De Grandville, starting to his feet. "Yes. Who knows you? Whence came you? You are an intruder in our ranks." "I bear the king's commission."
This change in public opinion gave additional influence to Veronique's salon, which was now visited by all the chief persons in the society of the town, in consequence of certain circumstances we shall now relate. Toward the close of this year the young Vicomte de Grandville was sent as deputy solicitor to the courts of Limoges.
With a wide coachman's hat, a guitar under her arm, and a skirt wrapped about her knees by the gale, there stands the second personage of the fable, the perfect portrait of a grasshopper. Grandville knew no more than La Fontaine of the true Cigale; he has beautifully expressed the general confusion. But La Fontaine, in this abbreviated history, is only the echo of another fabulist.
They appeared to have a foregone conviction on that point, but Bordin and Monsieur de Grandville judged it best to surfeit them with plaster, and weary them so thoroughly with the argument that they would no longer comprehend the question. Monsieur de Grandville made it appear that experts ought to have been sent to examine the stone posts.
The defence and the prosecution both attached much importance to this testimony, which became one of the leading points of the trial on account of the vigor of the defence and the suspicions of the prosecution. Gothard, instructed no doubt by Monsieur de Grandville, for up to that time he had only wept when they questioned him, admitted that Michu had told him to carry the plaster.
The men whom women make the fashion in this way are oftener strangers than compatriots. In this particular case the admirers of the Vicomte de Grandville were not mistaken; he was in truth a superior man. Madame Graslin was the only woman he found in Limoges with whom he could exchange ideas and keep up a varied conversation.
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