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The two young women, Ursula and Sabine, had been won to this friendship by the delightful interchange of counsels, cares, and confidences apropos of their first infants. While Calyste, a novice in falsehood, was saying to himself, "I must warn Savinien," Sabine was thinking, "I am sure that paper bore a coronet."
Before I left her to enter the navy she was placed between two alternatives, either to consent to my marrying Ursula or else to see me only from time to time and to know me exposed to the dangers of the profession; and you see she chose to let me go." "But, Savinien, we shall be together," said Ursula, taking his hand and shaking it with a sort of impatience.
"If you knew, my dear aunt, how surprised I am to see you here," he exclaimed in his hypocritical way. "Not more so than I am to find myself here," said she, with a smile. "But, bah! I have slipped my traces for a week." "And what are you going to do here?" continued Savinien. "What everybody does. By-the-bye, what do they do?" asked Madame Desvarennes, with vivacity.
There was his nephew Savinien, a disagreeable urchin whom he looked on with indifference; and he was biased regarding his brother, who had all but failed several times in business, and to whose aid he had come to save the honor of the name. The mistress had not hesitated to help him, and had prevented the signature of "Desvarennes" being protested.
"You know well enough that it is not so," sighed Savinien; "my aunt is opposed to it." "What a mistake!" cried Marechal, quickly. "I have heard Madame Desvarennes say more than twenty times how she regretted your being unemployed. Come into the firm, you will have a good berth in the counting-house." "In the counting-house!" cried Savinien, bitterly; "there's the sore point.
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.
The same disciple, once a simple artisan, a shoemaker, we believe, M. Savinien Lapointe, has also composed Le petit Évangile de la Jeunesse de Béranger.
I just caught this fellow as he was bolting. See what you've lost, won't you?" "Lost!" Savinien stared, a little stupidly, Cobb thought, and suddenly smiled. He was bulky to the point of grotesqueness, with a huge white torpid face and a hypochondriac stoop of the shoulders, and the hand that traveled over his waistcoat, from pocket to pocket, looked as if it had been shaped out of dough.
There is nothing the matter with me," cried Ursula, meeting Madame de Portenduere's eyes rather than give too much meaning to her words by looking at Savinien. "I cannot know, madame," said Savinien to his mother, "whether Mademoiselle Ursula suffers, but I do know that you are torturing me."
I give you a toast: 'The girl with money!" The young men did not leave their ex-friend till the official hour for parting. The gate was no sooner closed behind them than they said to each other: "He's not strong enough!" "He's quite crushed." "I don't believe he'll pull through it?" The next day Savinien wrote his mother a confession in twenty-two pages.
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