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When settled in some modest apartment, I shall place in your hands my pieces justificatives. I shall ask you to summon my surviving relations or connections, among which are the Counts de Vandemar, Beauvilliers, De Passy, and the Marquis de Rochebriant, with any friends of your own who sway the opinions of the Great World.
There is a Rue de Louvier that runs its drains right through my purse. I am obliged to call in the moneys due to me. My agent informs me that I am just 7000 louis short of the total I need all other debts being paid in and that there is a trifle more than 7000 louis owned to me as interest on my hypotheque on Rochebriant: kindly pay into his hands before the end of this week that sum.
Two days ago Louvier summoned to his house the surviving relations or connections of De Mauleon among whom are the Marquis de Rochebriant, the Counts de Passy, De Beauvilliers, De Chavigny, my father, and of course his two sons and submitted to us the proofs which completely clear the Vicomte de Mauleon of even a suspicion of fraud or dishonour in the affair of the jewels.
The Count de Chambord was then at that enervating little spa for the benefit of the Countess's health. If our friend Lemercier does not mangle your name as he does mine, I understand him to say that you are the Marquis de Rochebriant."
Do you suppose for one moment that I, saved from ruin and penury by Valerie's father, could be base enough to say to her, 'In return be Madame la Marquise de Rochebriant'? Do you suppose that I, whom you would love and respect as son, could come to you and say: 'I am oppressed by your favours I am crippled with debts give me your millions and we are quits. No, Duplessis!
"The Prince!" said Rochebriant, rousing himself from revery; "what Prince?" "Do you not recognize him by his wonderful likeness to the first Napoleon, him on horseback talking to Louvier, the great financier." "Is that stout bourgeois in the carriage Louvier, my mortgagee, Louvier?" "Your mortgagee, my dear Marquis? Well, he is rich enough to be a very lenient one upon pay-day." "Hein!
Alain de Rochebriant was a brave man, with that intense sentiment of patriotism which characterizes Frenchmen of every rank and persuasion, unless they belong to the Internationalists; and, without pausing to consider, he cried, "Your father was right." The Englishman resumed: "Need I say, my dear Marquis, that I am not a Legitimist?
He would be proud to think he had rendered a service to a Rochebriant. Approach him, either through me, or, far better, at once introduce yourself, and propose to consolidate all your other liabilities in one mortgage to him, at a rate of interest lower than that which is now paid to some of the small mortgagees. This would add considerably to your income and would carry out M. Hebert's advice."
Morley, the reverence of a man so chivalrously sensitive to honour as Alain de Rochebriant? Musing thus, Graham's countenance at last brightened a glorious joy entered into and possessed him.
You say I had assisted to a choice of danger and possibly of death a very distant connection of mine, who might have been a very near connection of yours. You mean Alain de Rochebriant?" "Yes; I accept him as a suitor for the hand of my only daughter." "I am so glad, not for your sake so much as for his.
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