Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
If you can persuade that little Mirouet, who possesses in her own right forty thousand francs, to marry you, I will give you, as true as my name is Minoret, the means to buy a notary's practice at Orleans." "No," said Goupil, "that's too far out of the way; but Montargis " "No," said Minoret; "Sens." "Very good, Sens," replied the hideous clerk.
"Madame de Portenduere, who was a Kergarouet, would never consent, even if she had to live on three hundred francs a year, to the marriage of her son, the Vicomte Savinien de Portenduere, with whom? with Ursula Mirouet, daughter of a bandsman in a regiment, without money, and whose father alas! I must now tell you all was the bastard son of an organist, my father-in-law."
Will it be believed that a town memorialized by the great, perhaps the greatest, French novelist, could not produce its title of honour, in other words a copy of "Ursule Mirouet"? This town of 4,000 and odd souls and chef-lieu of department does not possess a bookseller's shop.
"Ursula is, it is true, the legitimate daughter of Joseph Mirouet; but her father was the natural son of Valentin Mirouet, your uncle's father-in-law. Being therefore an illegitimate niece, any will the doctor might make in her favor could probably be contested; and if he leaves her his fortune in that way you could bring a suit against Ursula.
The judge stopped Minoret and said: "Do you know that Mademoiselle Mirouet has refused your son's hand?" "But," interposed the abbe, "do not be uneasy; she will prevent the duel." "Ah, then my wife succeeded?" said Minoret. "I am very glad, for it nearly killed me." "You are, indeed, so changed that you are no longer like yourself," remarked Bongrand.
But after fifteen years of Bohemia, Joseph Mirouet was unable to bear prosperity; he was naturally a spendthrift, and though kind to his wife, he wasted her fortune in a very few years. The household must have dragged on a wretched existence before Joseph Mirouet reached the point of enlisting as a musician in a French regiment.
The father-in-law of Doctor Minoret, the famous harpsichordist and maker of instruments, Valentin Mirouet, also one of our most celebrated organists, died in 1785 leaving a natural son, the child of his old age, whom he acknowledged and called by his own name, but who turned out a worthless fellow. He was deprived on his death bed of the comfort of seeing this petted son.
Hamerton had prepared the "Etcher's Handbook" and its illustrations, and was writing a series of articles on the "Characters of Balzac" for the "Saturday Review." To save time I read to him "Le Pere Goriot," "Eugenie Grandet," "Ursule Mirouet," "Les Parents Pauvres," "La Cousine Bette," etc. Mr.
His despondency did not abate his powers of work, as from April to December he published "Z. Marcas," "Un Prince de la Boheme," and "Pierre Grassou"; while in 1841, among other masterpieces, appeared "La Fausse Maitresse," "Une Tenebreuse Affaire," "Un Menage de Garcon," "Ursule Mirouet," and "Les Memoires de deux Jeunes Mariees."
"It isn't he," thought Goupil, "who has invented this scheme; I know my Zelie, she taught him his part. Bah! I'll let Massin go. In three years time I'll be deputy from Sens." Just then he saw Bongrand on his way to the opposite house for his whist, and he rushed hastily after him. "You take a great interest in Mademoiselle Mirouet, my dear Monsieur Bongrand," he said.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking