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Oscar had, therefore, in his great misfortune, the small luck of being, at the Comte de Serizy's instigation, drafted into that noble regiment, with the promise of promotion to quartermaster within a year. Chance had thus placed the ex-clerk under the command of the son of the Comte de Serizy.
When Monsieur de Granville told him of Madame de Serizy's condition, the keen-witted man had very wisely concluded that this fine lady's despair and frenzy must be the result of the quarrel she had allowed to subsist between herself and Lucien.
Not a little alarmed by the Comte de Serizy's attitude and expression, his friend led him aside. "My dear fellow," said he in a whisper, "your distress persuades me for the first and only time in my life to compromise with my duty." The public prosecutor rang, and the office-boy appeared. "Desire Monsieur de Chargeboeuf to come here."
To give oneself to a fool is a clear confession, is it not, that one is governed wholly by one's senses?" Mme de Serizy's "preferences" had always been for commonplace men; her lover at the moment, the Marquis d'Aiglemont, was a fine, tall man.
It was Monsieur de Serizy's misfortune to adore his wife "through fire and water," and he always shielded her with his protection. Now the public prosecutor fully understood the terrible fuss that would be made in the world and at court if a crime should be proved against a man whose name had been so often and so malignantly linked with that of the Countess.
"Go on, I will follow you," said the Duchess after a moment's hesitation. "Between us we may give Leontine some courage..." Notwithstanding the really demoniacal activity of this Dorine of the hulks, the clock was striking two when she and the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse went into the Comtesse de Serizy's house in the Rue de la Chaussee-d'Antin.
"You are kind," she said; "I will always love you " "Carry her away," said Monsieur de Bauvan. "No, we will go to Lucien's cell," said Monsieur de Granville, reading a purpose in Monsieur de Serizy's wild looks. And he lifted up the Countess, and took her under one arm, while Monsieur de Bauvan supported her on the other side.
"You are looking very handsome to-night, Mme. d'Aiglemont," he exclaimed, with the gaiety intolerable to the Marquise, who knew its emptiness so well. "Where have you spent the evening?" she asked, with a pretence of complete indifference. "At Mme. de Serizy's." He had taken up a fire-screen, and was looking intently at the gauze. He had not noticed the traces of tears on his wife's face.
"Now, what do you wish?" he continued, taking the tone of a master of the ceremonies "to return home, or to go back to Mme de Serizy's ball? I have done all in my power to prevent any scandal. Neither your servants nor anyone else can possibly know what has passed between us in the last quarter of an hour.
Below this highest manifestation other remarkable achievements may be due to talent. This is what divides men of the first rank from those of the second. Crime has its men of genius. Jacques Collin, driven to bay, had hit on the same notion as Madame Camusot's ambition and Madame de Serizy's passion, suddenly revived by the shock of the dreadful disaster which was overwhelming Lucien.
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