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Rochebriant touched the Englishman's arm, and said, "Do you think that Lemercier could be impertinent enough to accost that lady?" "In the first place," returned the Englishman, "Lemercier himself tells me that the lady has for several weeks relinquished her walks in the Bois, and the probability is, therefore, that he will not have the opportunity to accost her.
Scarcely a day had passed but what Alain had been summoned to enter into the financier's plans for the aggrandisement of the Rochebriant estates, and delicately made to feel that he had become a partner in speculations, which, thanks to the capital and the abilities Duplessis brought to bear, seemed likely to result in the ultimate freedom of his property from all burdens, and the restoration of his inheritance to a splendour correspondent with the dignity of his rank.
The scandal of legal measures against a writer so distinguished should be avoided if possible. He will avoid it and get the money somehow; but he must be urgently pressed. If you neglect this warning, my responsibility is past. Agreez mes sentimens les plus sinceres. The Marquis de Rochebriant is no longer domiciled in an attic in the gloomy Faubourg.
But from their grief they were soon roused by the terrible doubt whether Rochebriant could still be retained in the family.
But, assuming that you suppose rightly, the estates of Rochebriant would, in your hands, become a profitable investment, and more than redeem the mortgage, and the sum you have paid Louvier on my account, let it pass to you irrespectively of me.
"Who would give their soul to say, 'I bought these horses of Rochebriant. Of course I do. Ha! young Rameau, you are acquainted with him?" "Rameau! I never heard of him!" "Vanity of vanities, then what is fame? Rameau is the editor of Le Sens Commun. You read that journal?" "Yes, it has clever articles, and I remember how I was absorbed in the eloquent romance which appeared in it."
"Pass on, Count; I will defend to the last what I take from my ancestors, and cannot voluntarily sell their roof-tree and their tombs." "Your name would still remain, and you would be just as well received in Paris, and your 'noblesse' just as implicitly conceded, if all Judaea encamped upon Rochebriant. Consider how few of us 'gentilshommes' of the old regime have any domains left to us.
With the Count de Vandemar, one of his fellow-nobles of the sacred Faubourg, he should be no less Rochebriant, whether in a garret or a palace.
Two hours afterwards Rameau was leaning his burning forehead on his mother's breast. The next morning the doctor said to the mother, "You are worth ten of me. If you can stay here we shall pull him through." "Stay here! my own boy!" cried indignantly the poor mother. The day which had inflicted on Isaura so keen an anguish was marked by a great trial in the life of Alain de Rochebriant.
But there were some debts which; of course, a Rochebriant must pay debts of honour and Alain had, on the previous night, incurred such a debt and must pay it that day. He had been strongly tempted, when the debt rose to the figure it had attained, to risk a change of luck; but whatever his imprudence, he was incapable of dishonesty.
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