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This mute confession, for as such he regarded it, put the finishing touch to M. de Puymandour's exasperation. "You absolutely love him, and have the impudence to tell me so?" Marie glanced at her father, and answered, "The Marquis de Croisenois is of good family." "Pooh! you know nothing about it.
This delay however, had suited M. de Puymandour's plans, for it had enabled him to wring the consent from his daughter; but now that this had been done, he began to feel very anxious, and to fear that there might be some unforeseen hitch in the affair. When he reached Bevron, he saw Daumon talking earnestly with Francoise, the daughter of the Widow Rouleau.
After the enormity of his crime had been brought before him, the greatness of the punishment that he must endure now came across Norbert's mind. It was only now that Jean had ventured to tell him of M. de Puymandour's visit; and such a change had taken place in Norbert that he looked upon this visit as a special arrangement made by Providence.
The account that the Duke of Champdoce had given of M. de Puymandour's mad longing for rank and title was true, and afforded a melancholy instance of that peculiar kind of foolish vanity. He was a much happier man in his younger days, when he was known simply as Palouzet, which was his father's name, whose only wish for distinction was to be looked upon as an honest man.
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