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They found her in a dead faint; and they put her to bed, for she was seized by a nervous fever which held her for a month between life and death. "Where is he?" was the only thing she would say. Victorin sought for him in vain. And this is why. The Baron had driven to the Place du Palais Royal.
On the following day Crevel was announced at the hour when all the family were together in the drawing-room, just after breakfast. Celestine flew to throw her arms round her father's neck, and behaved as if she had seen him only the day before, though in fact he had not called there for more than two years. "Good-morning, father," said Victorin, offering his hand.
"But, on my honor, if you will but live with Madame Crevel, my children, you will find no reason to repent. Your good feeling touches me, Victorin, and you will find that generosity to me is not unrewarded. Come, by the Poker! welcome your stepmother and come to the wedding." "But you have not told us the lady's name, papa," said Celestine. "Why, it is an open secret," replied Crevel.
I am going, my dear children, to put an end to the false position in which I have so long been placed; I have come, like a good father, to announce my approaching marriage without any circumlocution." "You have a perfect right to marry," said Victorin. "And for my part, I give you back the promise you made me when you gave me the hand of my dear Celestine " "What promise?" said Crevel.
"Thanks to me!" exclaimed Crevel, whose face was purple. "Thanks to Celestine's fortune," replied Victorin. "And if you regret having given to your daughter as a present from yourself, a sum which is not half what her mother left her, I can only say that we are prepared to give it back."
The mother and daughter paid for three thanksgiving masses, and prayed to God to suffer them to keep the husband and father He had restored to them. One evening Victorin Hulot, seeing his father retire for the night, said to his mother: "Well, we are at any rate so far happy that my father has come back to us. My wife and I shall never regret our capital if only this lasts "
Be quite easy; we will arrange your marriage to the Marshal, for it is really necessary." "I shall never forget the courage you have shown this morning," said Hortense, embracing Lisbeth. "You have avenged our poor mother," said Victorin. The Marshal looked on with curiosity at all the display of affection lavished on Lisbeth, who went off to report the scene to Valerie.
"Woe to anybody who hurts my mother! I have no scruples then. I would crush that woman like a viper if I could! What, does she attack my mother's life, my mother's honor?" "She said, but do not repeat it, my dear Victorin she said you should all fall lower even than your father.
Those men insist on ready money to sweat others on usurious terms." "Let us sell out of the funds!" said Lisbeth to Hortense. "What good would that do?" replied Victorin. "It would bring fifteen or sixteen thousand francs, and we want sixty thousand." "Dear cousin!" cried Hortense, embracing Lisbeth with the enthusiasm of guilelessness.
Victorin Hulot was to the puritans of political life what a pious woman is among bigots. Beauvisage, formerly a stocking manufacturer at Arcis, was anxious to pick up the Paris style. This man, one of the outer stones of the Chamber, was forming himself under the auspices of this delicious and fascinating Madame Marneffe.
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