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Updated: June 3, 2025
Now, if the bride had been poor, they would have understood the match, and approved it: it is but natural that a poor girl should sacrifice her heart to her daily bread. But here it was not so. The Marquis de Tassar was considered wealthy; and report said that his daughter had brought her husband fifty thousand dollars.
"The count, on his side, had acted with the utmost delicacy and tact; so that no one suspected the cruel position of the Marquis de Tassar. He had placed two hundred thousand francs in his hands to settle his most pressing debts.
Unfortunately, Count Claudieuse could not all the time be the hero he had been at first. He saw Genevieve de Tassar. He was struck with her beauty; and overcome by a sudden passion forgetting that she was twenty, while he was nearly fifty he made his friend aware that he was still willing to render him all the services in his power, but that he desired to obtain Genevieve's hand in return.
One fine day Count Claudieuse had left for Paris; and, a few days later, his friends had been informed by letter that he had married the daughter of one of his former colleagues, Miss Genevieve de Tassar. The amazement had been universal. The count looked like a gentleman, and was very well preserved; but he was at least forty-seven years old, and Miss Genevieve was hardly twenty.
I bowed, and, seeing that she recognized me, I went up to her, trembling, and she allowed me to sit down by her. "She told me then that she had come up to Paris for a month, as she did every year, and that she was staying at her father's, the Marquis de Tassar. She had come to this party much against her inclination, as she disliked going out.
"At her father's house she enjoyed absolute and almost uncontrolled independence. She left her daughter for she had at that time but one child with her mother, the Marchioness de Tassar; and she was free to go and to come as she liked.
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