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The entail had been cut in the generation before and the title became extinct at his death. I did not tell Burton then of my discovery, and lay long hours in the dark, thinking and thinking. What did the Duchesse's attitude mean? In the eyes of the Duchesse de Courville-Hautevine, neé Adelaide de Mont Orgeuil to cheat at cards would be the worst of all the cardinal sins.
I leaned forward and kissed her hand with deep devotion then the ancient servitor came in and she was called to a ward but I left feeling that if there is really some barrier of family between Alathea and me there would be no use in my appealing to the Duchesse Sorrows she understands and war and suffering and self-sacrifice Love she understands and passion and all that appertains thereto but all these things go to the wall before the conception of the meaning of noblesse oblige which ruled when Adelaide de Mont Orgeuil wedded the Duc de Courville-Hautevine, in the eighties!
They assent to all that can be said of the miseries which he brought upon France; but add, "Mais il a battu tout le monde; il a fait des choses superbes a Paris; il a flattè notre orgeuil national. Ah! C'est un grand homme. Notre pays n'a jamais etè si grand ni si puissant que sous lui."
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