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Updated: June 3, 2025
To make the daily happiness of a home, is to bring a treasure into it. I had no other fortune when I married." "Do you like Lanstrac?" asked Paul, addressing Natalie. "How could I fail to like the place where you were born?" she answered. "I wish I could see your house." "Our house," said Paul. "Do you not want to know if I shall understand your tastes and arrange the house to suit you?
There are two domains adjoining Lanstrac now to be sold, which can be purchased for that sum, which will return in rentals four and a half per cent. The house in Paris should be included in the entail. The surplus of the two fortunes, if judiciously managed, will amply suffice for the fortunes of the younger children.
"She is as handsome as ever," said Paul; "country life preserves her freshness; I don't mean to go to Lanstrac and bid her good-bye; her heart would bleed for me too much." "You would go in vain; she is now in Paris. She probably arrived there as you left." "No doubt she had heard of the sale of my property and came to help me. I have no complaint to make of life, Mathias.
But he now held Bordeaux in horror; neither did he like Lanstrac, where his father had taken him to spend the summers, employing his whole time from morning till night in hunting.
"Our separation is necessary," replied her mother. "Several considerations have greatly changed my future. I am now poor. You will lead a brilliant life in Paris, and I could not live with you suitably without spending the little that remains to me. Whereas, if I go to Lanstrac, I can take care of your property there and restore my fortune by economy." "You, mamma!
You could live quietly at Lanstrac for five or six years on your wife's income, and so recover yourself." "No assignment or economy on my part could pay off fifteen hundred thousand francs of debt, in which my wife is involved to the amount of five hundred and fifty thousand." "You cannot mean to say that in four years you have incurred a million and a half of debt?"
This sum, added to the value of her furniture, can be invested in an annuity which will give her twenty thousand francs a year. Monsieur le comte can arrange to provide a residence for her under his roof. Lanstrac is a large house. You have also a house in Paris," he went on, addressing himself to Paul. "Madame can, therefore, live with you wherever you are.
"She is so kind and so devoted; she has always paid Natalie's debts during the three months she spent with us every year in Paris." "She could well afford to do so, for she gets her living out of Lanstrac," said Mathias. "She! grown economical! what a miracle!
A simple life at Lanstrac does not alarm me; but how can I ask Mademoiselle Natalie to renounce her tastes, her habits? Her very existence would be changed." "Where did Evangelista get his millions?" said the widow.
No one was enemy or friend enough to Paul or to Madame Evangelista to inform either of what was being said. Paul had some business at Lanstrac, and used the occasion to make a hunting-party for several of the young men of Bordeaux, a sort of farewell, as it were, to his bachelor life. This hunting party was accepted by society as a signal confirmation of public suspicion.
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