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Therefore his opinion of his mother's coldness may have sprung from her failure to answer to the requirements of his peculiar code of affection, and not from any real want of love on her part. Certainly her severity in his youth had the effect of concentrating the whole devotion of Honore's childish heart on Laure, the cara sorella of his later years.
She murmured something which Rouletta did not hear, for at that instant Colonel Cavendish appeared with the curt announcement: "That is all, ladies. You needn't remain longer." Blindly, confusedly, Rouletta rose and fumbled with her wraps. She saw the colonel go to Laure and speak with her in a stiff, formal way.
Returning to Paris by the eleventh of June, Balzac found nothing but a new crop of sorrows and anxieties awaiting him, together with "three or four months of hard labour" in perspective. His publisher, Werdet, had not been able to meet his payments, and his sister Laure had been obliged to pawn all her brother's silver at the Mont-de-Piete, in order to save the notes from being protested.
"Come and see me; my father has a fortune " "Ginevra," continued Laure, tenderly. "Madame Roguin and my mother are coming to see Monsieur Servin to-morrow and reproach him; hadn't you better warn him." A thunderbolt falling at Ginevra's feet could not have astonished her more than this revelation. "What matter is it to them?" she asked, naively. "Everybody thinks it very wrong.
"Laure confessed that she got a duplicate key to the cashier's cage," she heard the colonel say. "Got it from Pierce. It was she who put the evidence in there during the confusion. Pretty ingenious, I call it, and pretty spiteful." "Did she have anything to say about the the murder?" Rouletta inquired. "No. But the Countess has that figured out right, I'm sure.
She even went so far as to say that Guy did it in a spirit of revenge. Madame Laure de Maupassant made inquiries about the patriotic little sinner so as to help her. It was too late. She had died in extreme poverty. The heroine of Mademoiselle Fifi was a brunette, Rachel by name; the hero was a young German officer, Baron William d'Eyrick.
M. Surville probably became exasperated by useless attempts to vie in his wife's eyes with her much-beloved brother at any rate, in later years he was tyrannical in preventing their intercourse, and we hear of the unfortunate Laure coming in secret to see Balzac, on her birthday in 1836, and holding a watch in her hand, because she did not dare to stay away longer than twenty minutes.
He was attacked in the public press, and even his friends did not spare him their reproaches. Balzac defended himself against the criticisms of Mme. Zulma Carraud, whom he had met at Versailles at the home of his sister Laure, and whose esteem and affection he was anxious to keep. Mme. Carraud was a broad-minded and discerning woman, of delicate sensibility and an upright nature.
"Is this the way Best usually makes camp?" "Sure. Only it usually takes him much longer. I'll bet he's glad he hired you." Pierce murmured something. "Are you glad he did?" "Why, yes of course." "What do you think of the other girls?" "I haven't paid much attention to them," he told her, frankly. There was a moment's pause; then Laure said: "Don't!" "Eh?" "I say, don't!" Phillips shrugged.
This sudden ardor died, however, as quickly as it had been born, leaving him cold with apprehension. What would happen if he took the bit in his teeth? Rock knew about Laure those detestable redcoats knew pretty much everything that went on beneath the surface of Dawson life and if Pierce ran counter to the fellow's warning he would probably speak out. Rock was just that sort.
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