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He nodded to someone who approached slowly, it seemed. He was before the door he passed on it was Martigny! "That is the man!" I cried to Mr. Royce. "That is Martigny! Ask who he really is." He understood on the instant, and caught the notary's arm. "Monsieur Fingret, who is that man?" The notary glanced at him, surprised by his vehemence. "That," he said, "is Victor Fajolle.
I was a witness that same day of the kindness with which the Emperor received the petition of a poor woman, a notary's wife, I believe, whose husband had been condemned on account of some crime, I know not what, to a long imprisonment.
Five days hence she will be taken into custody, and a hundred and fifty thousand francs will be found in her rooms, the remains of a share from the robbery and murder of the old Crottat couple, the notary's father and mother." "She will get five years in the Madelonnettes," said Jacqueline. "That's about it," said the nephew.
Monsieur Voltaire was at the dinner, along with others of the guests who did not take part in the hunt; and the notary's son kept the whole company in a roar with his witticisms. Francezka was in high spirits, and had the honor of much notice by the king, by Count Saxe, and Monsieur Voltaire, to say nothing of the Dukes of Bourbon and Richelieu.
Adolphe, who knows the consequences of a confession too well to make one to his wife, replies "Well, I'll tell you." "That's a good fellow I shall love you better." "I was three hours " "I was sure of it at Madame de Fischtaminel's!" "No, at our notary's, as he had got me a purchaser; but we could not come to terms: he wanted our villa furnished.
'All Rome is here, from the Sacred College and the Queen of Sweden to the poorest notary's clerk, and it would take an hour to make your way through the crowd. Below the tabernacle the church is nearly half full of country people. 'You will have to go in by the main door, Stradella said to Ortensia.
One day they went together to the notary Raguideau, one of the shortest men I think I ever saw in my life, Madame de Beauharnais placed great confidence, in him, and went there on purpose to acquaint him of her intention to marry the young general of artillery, the protege of Barras. Josephine went alone into, the notary's cabinet, while Bonaparte waited for her in an adjoining room.
His parents lived simply, like the thrifty Dutch, spending only one fourth of an income of twelve thousand francs. They intended their savings, together with half their capital, for the purchase of a notary's practice for their son.
Werdet, for a number of years his publisher and friend, relates in his Portrait Intime that Balzac, while still in the Lesdiguieres Street garret, had gone one day to Alphonse Levavasseur and offered, in return for a royalty and a cash installment of two hundred francs, to supply him with a book to be entitled: Manual of the Business Man, by a former Notary's Clerk.
At the notary's gate Tonelli would have said good-night, but the signora made him enter with them, and then abruptly left him standing with the Paronsina in the gallery, while she was heard hurrying away to her own apartment. She reappeared, extending toward Tonelli both hands, upon which glittered and glittered manifold skeins of the delicate chain of Venice.
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