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Updated: May 1, 2025
Allusion was made to well-known stories about the robberies which are winked at on racecourses, but on this occasion the great name of Vandeuvres put a stop to all such accusations, and the skeptics in the end prevailed when they prophesied that Nana would come in last of all. "Who's riding Nana?" queried La Faloise.
Fauchery glanced along, scrutinizing the boxes through the round openings in each door. But the Count de Vandeuvres stopped him with a question, and when he was informed that the two cousins were going to pay their respects to the Muffats, he pointed out to them box seven, from which he had just emerged.
On such occasions one expects the party will number twenty, and you're really thirty." Vandeuvres, who was looking at the ladies, passed abruptly to another subject: "She must have been very nice-looking, that Du Joncquoy woman, some fifteen years ago. Poor Estelle has grown lankier than ever. What a nice lath to put into a bed!"
Vandeuvres took her remarks with equal pleasantry. He told her that he had lost a fabulous sum of money at the club yesterday and thereupon had come away with the intention of ending up in the country. "'Pon my word, yes, if only you can find me an heiress in these rustic parts! There must be delightful women hereabouts."
"I knew him once, I did. A charming man." "That's what I was saying yesterday," cried Vandeuvres, "but nobody would believe me." And just as at Countess Sabine's, there ensued a long discussion about Bismarck. Vandeuvres repeated the same phrases, and for a moment or two one was again in the Muffats' drawing room, the only difference being that the ladies were changed.
"Are you serious?" asked Vandeuvres, who thought a joke was intended. "Extremely serious. If I don't execute my commission she'll tear my eyes out. It's a case of landing her fish, you know." "Well then, I'll help you, dear boy." Eleven o'clock struck.
Yet when they wanted to take her into the dining room she still shouted "No!" furiously. Vandeuvres left the bedroom, smiling and without further pressing her, and the moment he was gone she had an access of melting tenderness, threw herself into Daguenet's arms and cried out: "Ah, my sweetie, there's only you in the world. I love you! YES, I love you from the bottom of my heart!
In the dining room a card table had just been set out, at which Vandeuvres, Steiner, Mignon and Labordette had taken their seats. Behind them Lucy and Caroline stood making bets, while Blanche, nodding with sleep and dissatisfied about her night, kept asking Vandeuvres at intervals of five minutes if they weren't going soon. In the drawing room there was an attempt at dancing.
A man might go anywhere; no one could think of suspecting evil where at most there could only be curiosity. The count listened to these arguments with downcast eyes and expressionless face. Vandeuvres felt him to be hesitating when the Marquis de Chouard approached with a look of interrogation.
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