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So Rosalie and her mother, who soon adopted the Paris style and fashions, easily obtained introductions to the best society. The golden key eighteen hundred thousand francs embroidered on Mademoiselle de Watteville's stomacher, did more for the Comtesse de Soulas than her pretensions a la de Rupt, her inappropriate pride, or even her rather distant great connections.
"The Wattevilles are having something charming done in their garden," was rumored in Besancon. "They are rich, and can afford a thousand crowns for a whim " "A thousand crowns!" exclaimed Madame de Chavoncourt. "Yes, a thousand crowns," cried young Monsieur de Soulas. "A man has been sent for from Paris to rusticate the interior but it will be very pretty.
"What is the matter that you stay here, Rosalie?" asked her mother, interrupting her reflections. "Monsieur de Soulas is in the drawing-room, and he observed your attitude, which certainly betrays more thoughtfulness than is due at your age." "Then, is Monsieur de Soulas a foe to thought?" asked Rosalie. "Then you were thinking?" said Madame de Watteville. "Why, yes, mamma."
"Go on, I beg, Monsieur de Soulas." "You may suppose that in a town where everything is classified, known, pigeon-holed, ticketed, and numbered, as in Besancon, Albert Savaron was received without hesitation by the lawyers of the town. They were satisfied to say, 'Here is a man who does not know his Besancon. Who the devil can have sent him here? What can he hope to do?
Next to this domestic scene, and the Adoration of the Shepherds and Angels, came the Circumcision of Jesus, with a white paper apron pasted on by some low jester; then the Adoration of the Magi; and Jehan de Soulas and the pupils of his studio had finished the work on their side.
Now, Monsieur de Soulas' father had left him only four thousand francs a year, the income from some cottage farms which lent painful uncertainty to the rents. The lion had hardly three francs a day left for food, amusements, and gambling. He very often dined out, and breakfasted with remarkable frugality.
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