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Updated: June 10, 2025
"It will be, I foresee, the greatest sacrifice that Monsieur de Portenduere can make to me, but I shall tell him that my bridal crown must have no blood upon it." "Well, I thank you, cousin, and I can only hope you will be happy." "And I, madame, sincerely wish that you may realize all your expectations for the future of your son."
Towards the end of June Bongrand brought the balance of the purchase money to Madame de Portenduere, advising her to invest it in the Funds, where, joined to Savinien's ten thousand, it would give her, at five per cent, an income of six thousand francs. Thus, so far from losing her resources, the old lady actually gained by the transaction. But she did not leave Nemours.
"I hope," he said to Dionis the day when Madame de Portenduere was summoned to pay her debt, "that we shall soon be rid of those nobles; after they are gone we'll drive out the rest." "That old woman with fourteen quarterings," said Goupil, "won't want to witness her own disaster; she'll go and die in Brittany, where she can manage to find a wife for her son."
The bedroom of the late Monsieur de Portenduere remained as he had left it on the day of his death; there was no change except that he was absent. Madame de Portenduere had made the bed herself; laying upon it the uniform of a naval captain, his sword, cordon, orders, and hat.
A note, imprudently given to a jeweler in collusion with the money-lenders, who did not wish to have the odium of arresting the young man, was the means of sending Savinien de Portenduere, in default of one hundred and seventeen thousand francs and without the knowledge of his friends, to the debtor's prison at Sainte-Pelagie.
Ursula's extreme beauty, to which her almost hopeless love gave a depth which great painters have sometimes conveyed in pictures where the soul is brought into strong relief, had struck Madame de Portenduere suddenly, and made her suspect that the doctor's apparent generosity masked an ambitious scheme.
"Monsieur de Portenduere is here and wishes to speak to you," said Cabirolle. "Show him in," answered Zelie. The twilight shadows prevented Madame Minoret from noticing the sudden pallor of her husband, who shuddered as he heard Savinien's boots on the floor of the gallery, where the doctor's library used to be. A vague presentiment of danger ran through the robber's veins.
"Ursula does not know that she loves," said the woman with a shake of the head; "she is too angelic to know what love is; but her mind is occupied by him; she thinks of him; she tries to escape the thought; but she returns to it in spite of her will to abstain. She is at the piano " "But who is he?" "The son of a lady who lives opposite." "Madame de Portenduere?"
A few weeks later the post poured into two hearts the poison of anonymous letters, one addressed to Madame de Portenduere, the other to Ursula. The following is the one to the old lady:
"You have lost your senses," she said at last. "Think it over, madame; God grant that your son may conduct himself in future in a manner to win that old man's respect." "If it were not you, Monsieur l'abbe," said Madame de Portenduere, "if it were any one else who spoke to me in that way " "You would not see him again," said the abbe, smiling.
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