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Charles de Kergrist, it appears, killed himself after a supper, which he left in a state of drunkenness. He committed suicide because he had lost his fortune at Homburg and at Baden; because he had exhausted his last resources; because his family, ashamed at his disgrace, refused to acknowledge him any longer.
Finding the last letter of Kergrist, she took it away with her, broke the seal, and read it; and, having found that her name was not mentioned in it, she had the amazing audacity to return to the body, and to put the letter back where she had found it. Then only she breathed freely. She had gotten rid of a man whom she feared. She went to bed, and slept soundly." Daniel had become livid.
He was an orphan, and came up from his province, his heart full of illusions, and in his pockets his entire fortune, a sum of five hundred thousand francs. His name was Charles de Kergrist. "Maxime managed to bring him to the house in Circus Street. He saw Sarah, and was dazzled. He loved her, and was lost. "Ah! The poor fellow did not last long.
An inquest was held; and it was found that the hundred thousand dollars which Kergrist had brought with him had utterly disappeared." "And Miss Brandon's reputation was not ruined?" Maxime replied with a bitter, ironical smile, "You know very well that she was not. On the contrary, the hanging was turned by her partisans into an occasion for praising her marvellous virtuousness.
His last cent, his last rod of land, has been taken from him. You left him living like a prince in his forefathers' palace: you will find him vegetating in the fourth story of a lodging-house. You know, that, being poor, he is deemed guilty. The day is drawing near when Sarah Brandon will get rid of him, as she has gotten rid of Kergrist, of Malgat the poor cashier, and others.
"Well, yes; one night a young man, Charles de Kergrist, a profligate, a gambler, crowning his scandalous life with the vilest and meanest act, did come and kill himself under my window. The next day a great outcry arose against me. Three days later the brother of that wretched madman, a M. Rene de Kergrist, came and held M. Elgin to account. But do you know what came of these explanations?
Le Normand de Kergrist, perished in the dreadful hurricane, which was experienced at Martinique and some other Islands, on the 21st and 22nd of October last. Messrs. Fournier Lieutenant, Legrandais, and Lespert Midshipman, and Paulin Boatswain, have received the cross of the Legion of Honor for their conduct on this occasion. Vide the Moniteur of January 22. Paris, Sept. 8, 1817. Sir.
Planix, Malgat, and Kergrist ought to have taught me what becomes of people who really love." Then looking at Daniel, she went on, "And you you will know what you have lost when I am no more. I may die; but the memory of my love will never die: it will rankle ever in you like a wound which opens daily afresh, and becomes constantly sorer.
But what became only too well known was the fact, that, about eight months later, the people living near Miss Brandon's house saw one morning, when the shutters were opened, a corpse dangling at a distance of a few feet above the ground from the iron fastenings of the lady's window. Upon inspection, the dead man proved to be that unlucky Kergrist.
Then she has that stiff, tall Sir Thorn ever at her side, who never jokes. Oh! they understand each other perfectly; the parts are carefully distributed, and" Daniel showed that he was utterly discouraged. "There is no way, then, of getting hold of this woman?" he asked. "I think not." "But that adventure of which you spoke some time ago?" "Which? That with poor Kergrist?" "How do I know which?
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