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I should tell you, he has for some time made it his business to keep M. de Keroual informed of your career; with what purpose I leave you to judge. When he first brought the news of your that you were serving Buonaparte, it seemed it might be the death of the old gentleman, so hot was his resentment. But from one thing to another, matters have a little changed.
I have been clothed with no capacity to talk of wills, or heritages, or your cousin. I was sent here to make but the one communication: that M. de Kéroual desires to meet his great-nephew." "Well," said I, looking about me on the battlements by which we sat surrounded, "this is a case in which Mahomet must certainly come to the mountain." "Pardon me," said Mr.
I was a Saint-Yves de Keroual; and I decided to strike off on the morrow for Wakefield and Burchell Fenn, and embark, as soon as it should be morally possible, for the succour of my downtrodden fatherland and my beleaguered Emperor.
'I have the pleasure of addressing Monsieur le Vicomte Anne de Keroual de Saint-Yves? said he. 'Well, said I, 'I do not call myself all that; but I have a right to, if I chose. In the meanwhile I call myself plain Champdivers, at your disposal. It was my mother's name, and good to go soldiering with. 'I think not quite, said he; 'for if I remember rightly, your mother also had the particle.
'You speak with a bitterness that I suppose I must excuse, said I; 'yet which of us has the more reason to be bitter? This man, my uncle, M. de Keroual, fled. My parents, who were less wise perhaps, remained. In the beginning, they were even republicans; to the end they could not be persuaded to despair of the people. It was a glorious folly, for which, as a son, I reverence them.
I was a Saint-Yves de Kéroual; and I decided to strike off on the morrow for Wakefield and Burchell Fenn, and embark, as soon as it should be morally possible, for the succour of my downtrodden fatherland and my beleaguered Emperor.
"None, I should suppose; and if it were, it would be no matter," said I. "With your usual penetration, you guessed right. An Englishman brought it me. It reached me through the hands of his English solicitor, from my great-uncle, the Comte de Kéroual de Saint-Yves, I believe the richest émigré in London." "I can do no more than take your word for it," said she.
My visitor now paused, took snuff, and looked at me with an air of benevolence. 'Good God, sir! says I, 'this is a curious story. 'You will say so before I have done, said he. 'For there have two events followed. The first of these was an encounter of M. de Keroual and M. de Mauseant. 'I know the man to my cost, said I: 'it was through him I lost my commission.
To do M. de Keroual justice, he took it in the best way imaginable, destroyed the evidences of the one great-nephew's disgrace and transferred his interest wholly to the other. 'What am I to understand by that? said I. 'I will tell you, says he. 'There is a remarkable inconsistency in human nature which gentlemen of my cloth have a great deal of occasion to observe.
'None, I should suppose; and if it were, it would be no matter, said I. 'With your usual penetration, you guessed right. An Englishman brought it me. It reached me, through the hands of his English solicitor, from my great-uncle, the Comte de Keroual de Saint-Yves, I believe the richest emigre in London. 'I can do no more than take your word for it, said she.
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