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Updated: June 6, 2025
But the disappearance of the Marquis was only a nine days' wonder after all. Some other strange event excited the attention of the fickle public, and George de Croisenois' name was no longer in every one's mouth. Norbert breathed freely once more, for he felt his secret was safe. Diana de Mussidan had now been absent for three months and had not vouchsafed him a single line.
He bowed profoundly, and left the room; but as he descended the stairs, he rubbed his hands, exclaiming, "If the doctor has made as good a job of it as I have, success is certain." Doctor Hortebise did not find it necessary to resort to any of those expedients which Mascarin had found it advisable to use in order to reach Madame de Mussidan.
But for all that the young man's heart was very sad, for it was two days since Sabine had left him, promising to write to him the next morning regarding M. de Breulh-Faverlay, but as yet he had received no communication, and he was on the tenterhooks of expectation, not because he had any doubt of Sabine, but for the reason that he had no means of obtaining any information of what went on in the interior of the Hotel de Mussidan.
Had Andre seen the man selected by the Count de Mussidan for his daughter's husband, he might well have been proud of her preference for him. M. de Breulh-Faverlay was one of the best known men in Paris, and fortune had showered all her blessings on his head.
He had a severe knife wound in the shoulder and was much bruised." "Who took his place?" "A young fellow that my groom got at a servants' registry office." M. de Mussidan felt that he was on the right track, for he remembered that the man who had called on him had had the audacity to leave a card, on which was marked: "B. MASCARIN, "Servants' Registry Office, "Rue Montorgueil."
With a spacious courtyard in front and a magnificent garden in the rear, the Hotel de Mussidan is as elegant as it is commodious. The exterior was extremely plain, and not disfigured by florid ornamentation. White marble steps, with a light and elegant railing at the sides, lead to the wide doors which open into the hall.
As I came here I said to myself, 'If the man to whom Mademoiselle de Mussidan has given her heart is worthy of her, I will do all I can to advance his suit with her family! I came here to see what you were like; and now I say to you, do me a great honor, and permit me to place myself, my fortune, and the influence of my friends, at your disposal."
"That is too much, for I hear that her friend has come to grief. Do not decline the order, but avoid taking fresh ones." Van Klopen made a few mysterious signs in the margin of his ledger. "On the 6th of this month the Countess de Mussidan gave us an order a perfectly plain dress for her daughter. Her account is a very heavy one, and the Count has warned us that he will not pay it."
"Both the Count and Countess were willing to accept you as their son-in-law?" "Exactly so." "Could M. de Mussidan have found a more brilliant match for his daughter, one who could unite so many advantages of experience and education to so enormous a fortune?" De Breulh could hardly repress a smile. "I am not wishing to pay you a compliment," said Andre impatiently. "Reply to my question."
Each day they exchanged a few words, and at last Diana, with much simulated hesitation, promised to alight from her carriage when next they met in the Bois, and talk to Norbert unhampered by the presence of the domestics. Madame de Mussidan had made the appointment for three o'clock, but before two Norbert was on the spot, in a fever of expectation and doubt.
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