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Updated: June 27, 2025
Then I proceeded to tell him of the cabal which had been formed against Mancini, and of the part played by St. Auban. At the mention of that name he started as if I had stung him. "What!" he thundered. "Is that ruffian also in the affair? Sangdieu! His motives are not far to seek. He is a suitor an unfavoured suitor for the hand of Yvonne, that seemingly still hopes.
The Chevalier's eyes flashed a glance that lacked no venom at his son. "What manner of greeting did you look for?" he returned hotly. "Did you expect me to set a ring upon your finger, and have the fattened calf killed in honour of your return? Sangdieu, sir! Have you come hither to show me how a father should welcome the profligate son who has dishonoured his name? Why are you here, unbidden?
Yet I would ask you, in the name of courage, to give him the slender chance he may have." "I promised him he should be flogged to death " began the Marquis, when Des Cadoux and Mademoiselle jointly interrupted him to renew their intercessions. "But, sangdieu," the Marquis protested "you seem to forget that he has killed one of my servants."
A laugh went up and one of the gamblers looked round to say: "It has gone hard with mademoiselle lately, sangdieu! Here's the Comte de Mar has not set foot in the house for a month or more, and M. Paul for a quarter of a year is vanished off the face of the earth. It seemed as if she must take the little cheese or nothing. But now things are looking up with her.
He seeks himself, by any means that may present themselves, to marry Yvonne and her estates; whilst the girl, I am told, loathes him beyond expression. Vilmorin again is actuated by no less a purpose. And so, what think you these two knaves this master knave and his dupe have determined? To carry off Mademoiselle by force!" "Sangdieu!"
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