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The ladies were still out, and Mademoiselle Marguerite found everything in the same condition as she had left it. She carefully placed the letter in the drawer again, locked it, and put the key in the pocket of Madame Leon's dress. Then she breathed freely once more; and, for the first time in six days, she felt something very like joy in her heart. Now she had no fear of the Marquis de Valorsay.
He found it impossible to reflect, to deliberate, to decide on any plan of action. He forgot the tortures he had endured during the last twenty-four hours; Coralth, Valorsay, Madame d'Argeles, the baron, no longer existed for him. He forgot his loss of honor and position, and the disgrace attached to his name.
I will endeavor to interest in your cause one of my friends, who is all powerful by reason of his name, his fortune, and his connections the Marquis de Valorsay, in fact." "The one who is so well known upon the turf?" "The same." "And you will introduce me to him?" "Yes. Be ready to-morrow at eleven o'clock, and I will call for you and take you to his house.
"I scarcely know how to testify my gratitude even now, monsieur, and yet if I dared if I did not fear to abuse your kindness, I should ask one more favor." "Speak, Monsieur Ferailleur." "It is this, I do not know the Marquis de Valorsay; and if, instead of leaving the door wide open, you would partially close it, I should hear as distinctly, and I could also see him." "Agreed," replied the baron.
She knew how to watch and how to listen, how to deliberate and how to act. Two men, the Marquis de Valorsay and M. de Fondege's son, coveted her hand; and one of the two, the marquis, so she believed, was capable of any crime. Still she felt no fears.
Pascal drew up his head with a deeply injured air, and remarked in the chilling tone of a person who is strongly tempted to retract his word, "Then there is nothing more to be said, M. le Marquis; and since you find the conditions onerous " "I did not say so," interrupted M. de Valorsay, quickly "I did not even think it!"
There must be some one to hold his creditors in check, to silence them, and obtain sundry concessions from them in a word, some one to interest them in his success. With this object in view, M. de Valorsay applied to his notary; but the latter utterly refused to mix himself up in any such affair, and declared that the marquis's suggestion was almost an insult.
You can give the money to Valorsay at such a time and under such conditions as will best serve your plans. Give it to him in an hour or in a month, all at once or in fifty different instalments, as you please. Only use it like the rope one ties round a dog's neck before drowning him." The keenest penetration was concealed beneath the baron's careless good-nature.
"Ah!" said the magistrate as if suddenly enlightened; "ah! ah!" But without noticing this exclamation which was, at least, remarkable in tone, M. de Valorsay again turned to Mademoiselle Marguerite, and continued: "Your ignorance on this subject, mademoiselle, convinces me that your servants have not deceived me in telling me that M. de Chalusse was struck down without the slightest warning.
But in the meantime, what is to become of HER? Think, mother, she is alone in the world, without a single friend. It is enough to drive one mad!" "She loves you, you tell me. What have you to fear? Now she will be freed from the persecutions of the suitor they intended to force upon her, whom she has spoken to you about the Marquis de Valorsay, is it not?"
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