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Far more solid than that of Rameau, far more brilliant than that of De Mauleon, was the celebrity which Isaura had now acquired. Without formally professing to receive, on one evening in the week her salon was open to those who had eagerly sought her acquaintance comprising many stars in the world of fashion, as well as those in the world of art and letters.
It was generally said that some day or other, when he had sown his wild oats, he would, if he took to politics, be an eminent man. Altogether he was a very strong creature. That was a very strong age under Louis Philippe. The viveurs of Paris were fine types for the heroes of Dumas and Sue, full of animal life and spirits. Victor de Mauleon was a romance of Dumas, incarnated."
She made no reply, nor did M. de Mauleon seem to expect one; with that rare delicacy of high breeding which appears in France to belong to a former generation, he changed his tone, and went on as if there had been no interruption to the question her words implied. "You think the Empire secure that it is menaced by on earthquake? You deceive yourself.
I have experienced the curse of fortune. Eh bien! one pays, and all is said! I have grieved with you, sir, I beg you to believe it. I admired your brother." "He was worthy of admiration." "In the south, near Mauléon, I lost such an one brother not in blood but in friendship, a friendship pure as the flowers of spring and strong as the vintage of autumn.
Duplessis frowned, and hastily led Valerie away. In a few minutes the room was comparatively deserted. De Mauleon, however, lingered by the side of Isaura till all the other guests were gone.
It is not, however, of the plebiscite we were conversing, so much as of the atrocious conspiracy of assassins so happily discovered in time. I presume that Monsieur de Mauleon must share the indignation which true Frenchmen of every party must feel against a combination united by the purpose of murder." The Vicomte bowed as in assent.
"I could not know he was your brother; but if he had been mine I would have done the same." Here Victor's lip quivered, for Monnier griped him by the arm, and looked him in the face with wild stony eyes. "I recollect that voice! Yet yet you say you are a noble, a Vicomte Victor de Mauleon, and you shot my brother!" Here he passed his left hand rapidly over his forehead.
But, as Savarin says truly, the first bodies which the car of revolution crushes down are those which first harness themselves to it. "Among De Mauleon's papers is the programme of a constitution fitted for France. How it got into Savarin's hands I know not. De Mauleon left no will, and no relations came forward to claim his papers. I asked Savarin to give me the heads of the plan, which he did.
Before the expiration of the two hours, the stalls, the enormous dilapidated organ, the choir-screen of Bishop John de Mauléon, the remnants of glass and tapestry, and the objects in the treasure-chamber, had been well and truly examined; the sacristan still keeping at Dennistoun's heels, and every now and then whipping round as if he had been stung, when one or other of the strange noises that trouble a large empty building fell on his ear.
He departed to the place of rendezvous amid a chorus of exhilarating cheers. Not thus lovingly tended on, not thus cordially greeted, was that equal idol of a former generation, Victor de Mauleon. No pious friend prayed beside his couch, no loving kiss waked him from his slumbers.
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