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"Possibly, but if the law were to keep count of all such cases, there would be no end to their labors; especially in all questions of the 'cujus'. Odouart de Buxieres was a terribly wild fellow, and they say that these old beech-trees of Vivey forest could tell many a tale of his exploits." "He, he!" assented the clerk, laughing slyly, and showing his toothless gums, "there is some truth in that.
If I understood quite aright, you were going to Vivey." "Yes, Mademoiselle, I had hoped to sleep there tonight." "You have probably come," continued she, "on business connected with the chateau. Is not the heir of Monsieur Odouart expected very shortly?" "I am that heir," replied Julien, coloring. "You are Monsieur de Buxieres?" exclaimed Reine, in astonishment.
Then, embarrassed at having shown her surprise too openly, she checked herself, colored in her turn, and finally gave a rapid glance at her interlocutor. She never should have imagined this slender young man, so melancholy in aspect, to be the new proprietor he was so unlike the late Odouart de Buxieres!
After a while, by dint of making her merits appreciated, and her presence continually desired, she became the mistress of Odouart de Buxieres, whom she managed to retain by proving herself immeasurably superior, both in culinary skill and in sentiment, to the class of females from whom he had hitherto been seeking his creature comforts.
Julien had never placed any reliance on this chimerical inheritance, and he received almost with indifference the official announcement of the death of Claude Odouart de Buxieres.
"Oh, yes; five or six years ago; I used often to take parties of hunters to the chateau. Ah! Monsieur, what a beautiful country it is for hunting; you can not take twenty steps along a trench without seeing a stag or a deer." "You have doubtless had the opportunity of meeting Monsieur Odouart de Buxieres?" "Yes, indeed, Monsieur, more than once-ah! he is a jolly fellow and a fine man "
"What do you mean?" she exclaimed, "was it not agreed with Monsieur de Buxieres that you should inherit all his property?" "Such was his intention, but he did not have time to put it in execution; he died without leaving any will, and, as I am nothing in the eye of the law, the patrimony will go to a distant relative, a de Buxieres whom Monsieur Odouart did not even know."
If I understood quite aright, you were going to Vivey." "Yes, Mademoiselle, I had hoped to sleep there tonight." "You have probably come," continued she, "on business connected with the chateau. Is not the heir of Monsieur Odouart expected very shortly?" "I am that heir," replied Julien, coloring. "You are Monsieur de Buxieres?" exclaimed Reine, in astonishment.
Julien had never placed any reliance on this chimerical inheritance, and he received almost with indifference the official announcement of the death of Claude Odouart de Buxieres.
"What do you mean?" she exclaimed, "was it not agreed with Monsieur de Buxieres that you should inherit all his property?" "Such was his intention, but he did not have time to put it in execution; he died without leaving any will, and, as I am nothing in the eye of the law, the patrimony will go to a distant relative, a de Buxieres whom Monsieur Odouart did not even know."
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