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"Yes," some of them would reply; "but would you give your daughter to a man like Graslin? No woman could marry him with impunity." Now that Graslin was married, all the mothers who had courted him for ten years past pursued him with sarcasms.
The doctor suddenly vowed to her, in his heart, a chivalrous worship. He exchanged a rapid glance with the rector, who thought to himself, "Here's the thunderbolt which will convert my poor unbeliever; Madame Graslin will have more eloquence than I."
What do you really think, you magistrates?" she added, plunging a fixed look into the eyes of the procureur-general. "We think that the woman belongs to the bourgeois or the commercial class." "I don't agree with you," said Madame Graslin. "A woman of that class does not have elevated sentiments."
The priest laid his hand over his eyes and was silent for a moment as if stunned. "Help my daughter," cried the old mother; "she is fainting." "The air is so keen, it overcomes me," said Madame Graslin, as she fell unconscious into the arms of the two priests, who carried her into one of the lower rooms of the chateau.
Madame Graslin turned hurriedly and walked away under the chestnut trees, as if attacked by some sharp pain; the keeper, thinking she was moved by a sudden caprice, did not venture to follow her. Veronique remained for some minutes under the chestnut trees, apparently looking at the landscape.
After three such visits at night he made me as supple as a glove. Would you like to know how, madame?" Farrabesche and Madame Graslin looked at each other, not explaining to themselves their mutual curiosity. "Well," resumed the poor liberated convict, "when he left me the first time, and Catherine had gone with him to show the way, I was left alone.
Monsieur Ruffin, with his eyes fixed on Veronique, was stupefied. At this instant the carriage came rapidly up the avenue. "There are five of them!" cried the rector, who could see and count the travellers. "Five!" exclaimed Gerard. "Can five know more than two?" "Ah," cried Madame Graslin suddenly, grasping the rector's arm, "the procureur-general is among them! What is he doing here?"
"My home is near by," he answered. "What can you do in such a desert?" she said. "I live." "But how? what means of living are there?" "I earn a little something by watching that part of the forest," he answered, pointing to the other side of the summit from the one that overlooked Montegnac. Madame Graslin then saw the muzzle of a gun and also a game-bag.
The architect employed by Graslin to restore the house had used brick as the chief substance of this vast construction. This was rendered less costly by the fact that the forest of Montegnac furnished all the necessary wood and clay for its fabrication. The framework of wood and the stone for the foundations also came from the forest; otherwise the cost of the restorations would have been ruinous.
Still, in his relation as compatriot, Graslin never disdained to talk with Sauviat when they chanced to meet. Both continued to keep up their early tutoiement, but only in their native dialect.
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