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Eight o'clock chimed nine ten and they were all, Edouard especially, working themselves into a complete panic of undefinable apprehension, when, to their great relief, M. de Véron's carriage drew up before the door. The first person to alight was M. Bourdon, a notary of eminence; next M. de Véron, who handed out Madame Carson; and all three walked through the shop into the back-apartment.
* Yet Lord Mount Edgcumbe is inconsistent enough to be an ardent admirer of Mozart's "Zauberflote." M. Véron was so delighted with the great success of "Robert" that he made a contract with Meyerbeer for another grand opera, "Les Huguenots," to be completed by a certain date. Meanwhile, the failing health of Mme.
Revolving these matters, Nana at length reached her home in the Rue Veron and was taken aback on observing a light in the window. Fontan had come home in a sulk, for he, too, had been deserted by the friend who had been dining with him. He listened coldly to her explanations while she trembled lest he should strike her.
'Your word, your honour, your heart you should have added your fortune, replied M. de Véron with frigid, slowly-distilled, sarcastic bitterness 'are irrevocably engaged, are they, to Adéline le Blanc, sister of my collecting clerk daughter of a deceased sous-lieutenant of the line' 'Of the Imperial Guard, interposed Eugène. 'Who aids her mother to eke out a scanty pension by embroidery'
'One moment one word, for the love of Heaven, before you go! exclaimed Eugène. 'Is there any mode, any means whereby Edouard may be rescued from this frightful, this unmerited calamity this irretrievable ruin? 'Yes, rejoined M. de Véron, pausing for an instant on the outer threshold, 'there is one mode, Eugène, and only one. What it is, you do not require to be told.
It was also positively rumoured that M. de Véron had proposed marriage to Madame Carson, and been refused! Be this true or not, it was soon apparent that, from some cause or other, M. de Véron's health and spirits were irretrievably broken down, and after lingering out a mopish, secluded life of scarcely a twelvemonth's duration, that gentleman died suddenly at Mon Séjour.
You will, as you ought, espouse Mademoiselle de Mérode, who is, I am told, a very superior and amiable person; and as to Adéline, she will console herself. A girl with her advantages will always be able to marry sufficiently well, though not into the family of a millionaire. But my present business with you, Monsieur Eugène de Véron, relates to a different and much more important matter.
He is good and affectionate, and sometimes he is overcome by attacks of compassion. Véron and Louise Verte see one another, and each makes a détour of avoidance. They are afraid of each other. Here, also, on the margin of passion, is Monsieur Joseph Bonéas, very compassionable, in spite of his intellectual superiority.
'Debts to the amount of about two thousand francs, which you wish to discharge immediately this morning, in fact, slowly repeated De Véron, fixing on his son a triumphant, mocking glance, admirably seconded by the curve of his thin white lips. 'Well, let the bills be sent to me. If correct and fair, they shall be paid. 'But but, father, one, the chief item, is a debt of honour! 'Indeed!
We stopped at an inn to rest and eat, and it was already evening when we reached the streets. Marie pointed out a man who was crossing over, yonder. "Monsieur Rampaille is rich now, because of the War." Then it was a woman, dressed in fluttering white and blue, disappearing round the corner of a house: "That's Antonia Véron. She's been in the Red Cross service.
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