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'I have noticed, once or twice during the last fortnight, that she has made use of strange half-hints relative to Monsieur de Véron. 'I don't know what she can mean, said Edouard le Blanc, seizing his hat and hurrying off; 'but I shall follow, and strive to ascertain.
You will marry Mademoiselle de Mérode; or if not, he added with iron inflexibility of tone and manner 'Eugène de Véron is likely to benefit very little by his father's wealth, which the said Eugène will do well to remember is of a kind not very difficult of transference beyond the range of the law of inheritance which prevails in France.
When M. de Véron, after spraining his ankle, was carried in a state of insensibility into the room behind her shop, she had immediately busied herself in removing his neckcloth, unfastening his shirt, then a flannel one which fitted tightly round the neck, and thus obtained a glimpse of the branded letters 'T. F. With her customary quickness of wit, she instantly replaced the shirts, neckcloth, &c., and carefully concealed the fatal knowledge she had acquired, till an opportunity of using it advantageously should present itself.
The latter made a bargain with the author to write ten small volumes a year for fourteen consecutive years, for which he agreed to pay one hundred thousand francs a year, or nearly a million and a half for the whole engagement. He presented Dr. Veron with the manuscript of the Seven Capital Sins, when the worthy editor found himself drawn to the life, under the title of the Gourmand.
A five-year-old girl points her tiny finger at Louise and twitters, "She wants a man." In the Place is Véron, going about aimlessly, like a dead leaf Véron, who revolves, when he may, round Antonia. An ungainly man, whose tiny head leans to the right and wears a colorless smile. He lives on a few rents and does not work.
Rumour in this instance was correctly informed. 'Eugène, said M. de Véron, addressing his son in his usual cold positive manner, and at the same time locking his private écritoire, the hand of the clock being just on the stroke of five, the hour for closing 'I have a matter of importance to inform you of.
M. de Véron had the air of a man walking in a dream, and subdued, mastered by some overpowering, nameless terror; while Madame Carson, though pale with excitement, was evidently highly elated, and, to use a French phrase, completely 'mistress of the situation. She was the first to break silence.
M. de Véron himself was frequently in the habit of calling, on his way to or from Mon Séjour, for a pâté and a little lively badinage with the comely widow; and so frequently, at one time, that Edouard le Blanc was half-inclined to Madame Carson's infinite amusement to be jealous of the rich, though elderly merchant's formal and elaborate courtesies.
This very substantial work, abounding in facts, conceived after a systematic plan, has aided us much in this study. Op. cit., pp. 45-46. The insufficient study of dynamic electricity did not permit them to succeed. E. Veron, L'Esthétique, p. 315. L. Bourdeau, op. cit., p. 233.
Ilabeneck was conductor, and everything had been done in the way of scenery and costumes. The success was a remarkable one, and Meyerbeer's name became famous throughout Europe. Dr. Véron, in his "Mémoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris," describes a thrilling yet ludicrous accident that occurred on the first night's performance.
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