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Your hesitation in confiding to me these first emotions shows me you would suffer cruel torture rather than admit to Savinien " "Oh, yes!" she said. "But, my child, you must do more. You must repress these feelings; you must forget them." "Why?" "Because, my darling, you must love only the man you marry; and, even if Monsieur Savinien de Portenduere loved you " "I never thought of it."
He was now looking forward impatiently to the death of his father, that he might succeed to the title of baron. Possessed with a mania for talking heraldry, he once asked the young Vicomte de Portenduere why his arms were charged in a certain way, and drew down upon himself the happy answer, "I did not make them." He talked of his devotion to the monarchy and the attentions the Dauphine paid him.
This man, fussy as a fine lady, worried by the slightest contretemps, speaking low to spare his voice, had been in his early days one of the most intrepid and most competent officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the Indian Ocean, and the friendship of the Comte de Portenduere.
Had I adopted you the result might also have been a lawsuit, and I shrank from the idea of transmitting my fortune to you by marriage, for I might live years and thus interfere with your happiness, which is now delayed only by Madame de Portenduere. Having weighted these difficulties carefully, and wishing to leave you enough money to secure to you a prosperous existence
Though the Countess aspired to reign in Paris and tried to keep pace with Mesdames the Duchesses de Maufrigneuse and du Chaulieu, the Marquises d'Espard and d'Aiglemont, the Comtesses Feraud, de Montcornet, and de Restaud, Madame de Camps, and Mademoiselle des Touches, she did not yield to the addresses of the young Vicomte de Portenduere, who made her his idol.
"I did not think of sending you word till I got to the club." "But you wrote on a woman's note-paper; it had a perfume of feminine elegance." "Those club directors are such dandies!" The Vicomte de Portenduere and his wife, formerly Mademoiselle Mirouet, had become of late very intimate with the du Guenics, so intimate that they shared their box at the Opera by equal payments.
"Who can Madame de Portenduere be looking for?" said Madame Massin, rejoining the other heirs, who were for the moment struck dumb by the doctor's answer. "For the cure," said Dionis, the notary, suddenly striking his forehead as if some forgotten thought or memory had occurred to him. "I have an idea! I'll save your inheritance! Let us go and breakfast gayly with Madame Minoret."
What I say now I would be willing to say everywhere, deploring the harm done by such miserable tricks which may have hastened your happiness," he added, rather maliciously, "for I see that Madame de Portenduere is with you." "That is all very well, Goupil," said the abbe, "Mademoiselle forgives you; but you must not forget that you came near being her murderer."
Monsieur de Kergarouet intended to get him a place in the War office; but this imprisonment for debt will paralyze such efforts. You must pay his debts; let him enter the navy; he will make his way like the true Portenduere that he is; he has the fire of the family in his beautiful black eyes, and we will all help him.
"Madame," said the doctor severely, "her soul is chilled, accustomed as she is to be met by smiles." "A very bad education, monsieur," said Madame de Portenduere. "Is it not, Monsieur l'abbe?" "Yes," answered Minoret, with a look at the abbe, who knew not how to reply.
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