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'I have a very good account of you by Monsieur de Mauseant, whom you helped in Spain. And you had some education from the Abbe de Culemberg, a man of a good house? Yes, you will do very well. You have a good manner and a handsome person, which hurts nothing. We are all handsome in the family; even I myself, I have had my successes, the memories of which still charm me.
'If I had thought I was injuring my emperor, said I, 'I would have let M. de Mauseant burn in hell ere I had helped him, and be sure of that! I saw in him only a private person in a difficulty: I let him go in private charity; not even to profit myself will I suffer it to be misunderstood. 'Well, well, said the lawyer, 'no matter now.
This is a foolish warmth a very misplaced enthusiasm, believe me! The point of the story is that M. de Mauséant spoke of you with gratitude, and drew your character in such a manner as greatly to affect your uncle's views. Hard upon the back of which, in came your humble servant, and laid before him the direct proof of what we had been so long suspecting. There was no dubiety permitted.
This is a foolish warmth a very misplaced enthusiasm, believe me! The point of the story is that M. de Mauseant spoke of you with gratitude, and drew your character in such a manner as greatly to affect your uncle's views. Hard upon the back of which, in came your humble servant, and laid before him the direct proof of what we had been so long suspecting. There was no dubiety permitted.
My visitor now paused, took snuff, and looked at me with an air of benevolence. 'Good God, sir! says I, 'this is a curious story. 'You will say so before I have done, said he. 'For there have two events followed. The first of these was an encounter of M. de Keroual and M. de Mauseant. 'I know the man to my cost, said I: 'it was through him I lost my commission.
"If I had thought I was injuring my emperor," said I, "I would have let M. de Mauséant burn in hell ere I had helped him, and be sure of that! I saw in him only a private person in a difficulty: I let him go in private charity; not even to profit myself will I suffer it to be misunderstood." "Well, well," said the lawyer, "no matter now.
"I have a very good account of you by Monsieur de Mauséant, whom you helped in Spain. And you had some education, from the Abbé de Culemberg, a man of good house? Yes, you will do very well. You have a good manner and a handsome person, which hurts nothing. We are all handsome in the family; even I myself, I have had my successes, the memories of which still charm me.
My visitor now paused, took snuff, and looked at me with an air of benevolence. "Good God, sir!" says I, "this is a curious story." "You will say so before I have done," said he. "For there have two events followed. The first of these was an encounter of M. de Kéroual and M. de Mauséant." "I know the man to my cost," said I; "it was through him I lost my commission."
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