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She had unbounded influence over her husband, and she persuaded him to falsehood, dishonesty, and treachery." "Do not deny that she has courage," said St. Just. "She has borne her adversity well, though she could not bear her prosperity." "She has courage," said Lebas, "and how has she used it? in fighting an ineffectual battle against the country who had received her with open arms.
We won't speak now of the two hundred and forty thousand francs, which I am sure Monsieur Birotteau will be able to raise soon," said Claparon, looking at Lebas. "I have come now to ask for a trifle, merely twenty-five thousand francs," he added, turning to Birotteau. "Twenty-five thousand francs!" cried Cesar, feeling ice in his veins instead of blood. "What claim have you, monsieur?"
Cesar had not as yet obeyed the command of Louis XVIII., but he now mechanically fastened the ribbon of the Legion of honor to his button-hole. In a moment he was surrounded by his friends and borne in triumph down the great stairway to his coach. "Where are you taking me, my friends?" he said to Joseph Lebas, Pillerault, and Ragon. "To your own home." "No; it is only three o'clock.
So by the time the visitors from Sancerre had taken their leave one by one for they had an hour's drive before them when no one remained in the drawing-room but Monsieur de Clagny, Monsieur Lebas, Gatien, and Monsieur Gravier, who were all to sleep at Anzy the journalist had already changed his mind about Dinah.
My daughter Hortense had a chance of marrying; the match depended entirely on you; I believed you felt some sentiments of generosity; I thought you would do justice to a woman who has never had a thought in her heart for any man but her husband, that you would have understood how necessary it is for her not to receive a man who may compromise her, and that for the honor of the family with which you are allied you would have been eager to promote Hortense's settlement with Monsieur le Conseiller Lebas.
"Has Josepha thrown him over, packed him off, turned him out neck and crop? Bravo, Josepha, you have avenged me! I will send you a pair of pearls to hang in your ears, my ex-sweetheart! I knew nothing of it; for after I had seen you, on the day after that when the fair Adeline had shown me the door, I went back to visit the Lebas, at Corbeil, and have but just come back.
'I interrupted her, "My temptation is to make him the laughing stock of his acquaintance, and, if he has the impudence to give me the opportunity, I will!" And then I told her, without names, of course, that story about this Vidame Potter and Violet Lebas. 'I did not, said Merton. 'But why Vidame Potter? 'His father was a Mr.
From that day the old merchant, grieved at seeing his eldest daughter fade, remembered how he had married Mademoiselle Chevrel under much the same circumstances as those of Joseph Lebas and Virginie. A good bit of business, to marry off his daughter, and discharge a sacred debt by repaying to an orphan the benefit he had formerly received from his predecessor under similar conditions!
He is friendly with a person who lets furnished lodgings in the Rue du Mail and some tailor or other.... We found out that he had led a most disreputable life, and no amount of fortune would be enough for a scamp that has run through his mother's property." "Why, Mlle. de Marville would have been wretched!" said Mme. Berthier. "How did he come to your house?" asked old Mme. Lebas.
There Madame Guillaume reasserted her rights, and, for the first time, placed Augustine next herself, Virginie taking her place on the fourth chair, next to Lebas.
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