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Adrienne," said Baron Tripeaud, with a self-conceited and sententious air, "that a conversion " "I believe," said Adrienne, disdainfully, "that M. Tripeaud is well versed in the conversion of all sorts of property into all sorts of profit, by all sorts of means but he knows nothing of this matter."
We must carry things further than we thought, and make an end this very morning." "Yes, though it is almost impossible." "Nay, all is possible. The doctor and M. Tripeaud are ours," said the princess, hastily.
"The princess acted very wisely," said Tripeaud, bowing; "it is well that the authorities should be informed of such matters." Adrienne, too much interested in the fate of the workman to think of answering Tripeaud or the princess, listened in silence, and strove to conceal her uneasiness.
They have not received, as I have, a refined education, calculated to raise the soul, and purify the heart. They have not wealth, as I have, to protect them from the evil temptations of misery; and yet they live honestly and proudly in their distress." "Vice and virtue do not exist for such tag-rag vermin!" cried Baron Tripeaud, with an expression of anger and hideous disdain.
"Madame, you forget yourself!" cried the princess, becoming pale with rage. "Madame, I do not forget I remember, like other people; that is all. I had no relation of whom I could ask an asylum. I wished to live alone. I wished to enjoy my revenues because I chose rather to spend them myself, than to see them wasted by M. Tripeaud."
"It would have been well, madame," said Tripeaud, "to have caused to be noted also in the report, that Mademoiselle had returned home at eight o'clock in the morning." "I do not see the necessity for this," said the doctor, faithful to his part: "it would have been quite foreign to the search carried on by the commissary." "But, doctor," said Tripeaud.
Adrienne," said Baron Tripeaud, with a self-conceited and sententious air, "that a conversion " "I believe," said Adrienne, disdainfully, "that M. Tripeaud is well versed in the conversion of all sorts of property into all sorts of profit, by all sorts of means but he knows nothing of this matter."
"In my last letter, in which I announced to you the death of Djalma's father, and his own imprisonment by the English, I asked for some information as to the solvency of Baron Tripeaud, banker and manufacturer at Paris, who has also an agency at Calcutta.
D'Aigrigny followed the speaker into the next room. The Princess de Saint-Dizier, accompanied by D'Aigrigny, and followed by the servants, stopped short in the next room to that in which had remained Adrienne, Tripeaud and the doctor. "Where is the commissary?" asked the princess of the servant, who had just before announced to her the arrival of that magistrate. "In the blue saloon, madame."
"'It is true, that your optimists say to these pariahs of civilization, whose proud and noble poverty cannot be too much revered and honored: "Buy an estate and you too may be electors and candidates!" "'But to come to the biography of our worthy baron Andrew Tripeaud, the son of an ostler, at a roadside inn."
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