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Louvier determined both to seize the Breton lands and to complete the ruin of Duplessis, when he learned from De Mauleon that he had spent half his life in a baseless illusion; that Alain's father was innocent of the crime for which his son was to suffer; and Victor, with that strange power over men's minds which was so peculiar to him, talked Louvier into mercy if not into repentance.
Had you no suspicion that there was one reason why this lady might have quitted Paris so hastily, and have so shrunk from the thought of a marriage so advantageous, in a worldly point of view, as that with M. Louvier, namely, that she anticipated the probability of becoming the mother of a child by the man whom she refused to acknowledge as a husband?"
You may add considerably to your income by consolidating all these mortgages into one at a lower percentage, and in so doing pay off this formidable mortgagee, M. Louvier, who, I shrewdly suspect, is bent upon becoming the proprietor of Rochebriant.
I thought it right, I say, to tell Louvier confidentially the history of the unfortunate illegal marriage. It did not damp his ardour. He wooed her to the best of his power, but she evidently took him into great dislike.
The affable financier had already made vast progress in familiarity with his silent fellow-guest. When the dinner was over and the three men had reentered the salon for coffee and liqueurs, Gandrin left Louvier and Alain alone, saying he was going to his cabinet for cigars which he could recommend.
Louvier coloured and muttered inaudibly. De Mauleon continued: "I felt it due to you to rebuke their incivilities, the more so as you evinced on that occasion your own superiority in sense and temper, permit me to add, with no lack of becoming spirit." Louvier bowed his head, evidently gratified. "From that day we became familiar.
And my conscience accuses me of having been to blame in the first instance. You see, when Alain made terms with Louvier by which he obtained a very fair income, if prudently managed, I naturally wished that a man of so many claims to social distinction, and who represents the oldest branch of my family, should take his right place in our world of Paris.
"A thousand pardons! but I have already had the honour to inform you, that I have contracted an obligation which does not allow me to listen to terms." As a serpent, that, after all crawlings and windings, rears itself on end, Louvier rose, crest erect: "So then it is finished. I came here disposed to offer peace you refuse, and declare war."
You have long known M. de Mauleon?" "Yes, I may say we began life together that is, much at the same time." "What is he like in appearance?" asked Mrs. Morley. "The ladies thought him very handsome when he was young," replied Louvier. "He is still a fine-looking man, about my height." "I should like to know him!" cried Mrs. Morley, "if only to tease that husband of mine.
But I own I am weak enough to feel hurt at such a reception from Hennequin, for he owed me some obligations, small, perhaps, but still they were such as might have made me select him, rather than Louvier, as the vindicator of my name, had I known him to be so high placed. But a man who has raised himself into an authority may well be excused for forgetting a friend whose character needs defence.
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