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"I come from the Prince," replied the Count, in a low voice. "You have carte blanche if you can only get the letters Madame de Serizy's, Madame de Maufrigneuse's and Mademoiselle Clotilde de Grandlieu's. You may come to some arrangement with this gentleman " "Who is he?" asked Monsieur de Granville, in a whisper. "There are no secrets between you and me, my dear sir," said des Lupeaulx.
Last September she married her niece, Mademoiselle du Rouvre, on whom, since the death of her son, she spends all her affection, to a very rich young Pole, the Comte Laginski." "To whom," asked Madame Clapart, "will Monsieur de Serizy's property go?" "To his wife, who will bury him," replied Georges. "The countess is still fine-looking for a woman of fifty-four years of age.
The air was warm; the Duchess, feeling the heat, opened her eyes, and found herself standing by the fire in the Comtesse de Serizy's boudoir. She was alone. Her first thought was for her disordered toilette; in a moment she had adjusted her dress and restored her picturesque coiffure. "Well, dear Antoinette, we have been looking for you everywhere."
But, indeed, Madame la Duchesse, you could not look more charming than you do at this moment. You are sweet enough to charm anybody, take an old woman's word for it! In short, madame, do not wait for your carriage, but get into my hackney coach. Come to Madame de Serizy's if you hope to avert worse misfortunes than the death of that cherub "
"I ask for nothing," said Jacques Collin. "I surrendered at discretion, and Monsieur de Granville must have received " "All the letters, yes," said the magistrate. "But you promised to save Madame de Serizy's reason. Can you? Was it not a vain boast?" "I hope I can," replied Jacques Collin modestly. "Well, then, come with me," said Comte Octave.
"It is a far worse crime against me to have ever allowed it to be recorded; still, at this moment it is the only evidence against Lucien. Come, read me the minutes of his examination that I may see if there is still a way of salvation for us all, monsieur. I do not speak for myself alone I should quite calmly kill myself but Monsieur de Serizy's happiness is also at stake."
We sat together, Monsieur de Serizy, the Count, and I, from six in the evening till six this morning, taking it in turns to go from the drawing-room to Madame de Serizy's bedside, fearing each time that we might find her dead or irremediably insane. Desplein, Bianchon, and Sinard never left the room, and she has two nurses. The Count worships his wife.
But Lucien broke off with a gesture of despair. "Well, what is it?" asked the poor girl. "Oh! Madame de Serizy sees me!" cried Lucien, "and to crown our woes, the Duc de Rhetore, who witnessed my dismissal, is with her." In fact, at that very minute, the Duc de Rhetore was amusing himself with Madame de Serizy's discomfiture.
She left three hundred francs in gold for the prisoners." "That was not she!" said Camusot. "Bibi-Lupin at once said, 'She is a thief!" said Monsieur Gault. "He knows the tribe," said Monsieur de Granville. "Get out your warrant," he added, turning to Camusot, "and have seals placed on everything in her house at once! But how can she have got hold of Monsieur de Serizy's recommendation?
"There is M. du Chatelet," exclaimed Lucien at that moment, and he pointed a finger towards Mme. de Serizy's box, which the renovated beau had just entered. Mme. de Bargeton bit her lips with chagrin as she saw that gesture, and saw besides the Marquise's ill-suppressed smile of contemptuous astonishment.
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