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What I ask you, madame, is suggested by my wish thoroughly to understand the matter. Instead of going to Briancon, where he wished to take you, he remained in Paris. This point is not clear. Did he know this Madame Jeanrenaud before his marriage?" "No, monsieur," replied the Marquise, with some asperity, visible only to Rastignac and the Chevalier d'Espard.
A man of the utmost cheer and wholesomeness, revelling in dancing, swimming, riding, sketching, and billiards; he was idolised in the circle around him, though his life was not without its enmities. He had many slight flirtations, but seems to have been even engaged but once, to Cécile Jeanrenaud, whom he married. His home life was a repetition of that ideal circle in his father's house.
Write that down on your papers. Heaven above us! I will go at once and tell Jeanrenaud what is going on! A pretty thing indeed!" And the little old woman went out, rolled herself downstairs, and disappeared. "That one tells no lies," said Popinot to himself. "Well, to-morrow I shall know the whole story, for I shall go to see the Marquis d'Espard."
"And the furniture, too, must have cost a lot of money?" "More than a hundred thousand francs," replied Madame d'Espard, who could not help smiling at the lawyer's vulgarity. "Judges, madame, are apt to be incredulous; it is what they are paid for, and I am incredulous. The Baron Jeanrenaud and his mother must have fleeced M. d'Espard most preposterously, if what you say is correct.
His man-servant was stigmatized as a Jesuit, his cook as a sly fox; the nurse was in collusion with Madame Jeanrenaud to rob the madman. The madman was the Marquis. By degrees the other tenants came to regard as proofs of madness a number of things they had noticed in M. d'Espard, and passed through the sieve of their judgment without discerning any reasonable motive for them.
It is highly probable that the early exertions of herself and her brother, which made their talents so wonderful, resulted in lessening their vital strength. Mendelssohn himself was married. After his father's death he had wedded Cécile Jeanrenaud, daughter of a French pastor, and with her he passed a life of happiness.
"But supposing that this so-called possession fell under this class of facts, it would be difficult to prove it as legal evidence." "If this woman Jeanrenaud is so hideously old and ugly, I do not see what other means of fascination she can have used," observed Bianchon.
In the end, the sums of money sent by the refugee family to ransom the poor man were kept by the governor, who despatched the merchant all the same." The Marquis paused, as though the memory of it were still too heavy for him to bear. "This unfortunate family were named Jeanrenaud," he went on. "That name is enough to account for my conduct.
I had my boy, who is a fine young man; he is my pride, and it is not holding myself cheap to say he is my best piece of work. My little Jeanrenaud was a soldier who did Napoleon credit, and who served in the Imperial Guard. But, alas! at the death of my old man, who was drowned, times changed for the worse. I had the smallpox.
M. d'Espard was then six-and-twenty; he was a gentleman in the English sense of the word; his manners pleased me, he seemed to have plenty of ambition, and I like ambitious people," she added, looking at Rastignac. "If M. d'Espard had never met that Madame Jeanrenaud, his character, his learning, his acquirements would have raised him as his friends then believed to high office in the Government.
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