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"Ah, madam, perfectly as I am convinced of Count Ville-Handry's uprightness and integrity, I also know that he was utterly ignorant of business. What did he understand of these speculations into which he was drawn? Nothing. It is a difficult and often a dangerous thing to manage large capitals.
Having said what he meant to say, the duke had entered the church; and the old beau now took the word. "The only thing that is clear to me in this matter is, that I think I know the person whom this wedding will not please particularly." "Whom do you mean?" "Count Ville-Handry's daughter, a young girl, eighteen years old, and wondrously pretty. Just imagine!
How could they have become aware of the flight of time, as long as all their faculties were bent upon the immense interests that were at stake? On the struggle which they were about to undertake depended Count Ville-Handry's life and honor, and the happiness and whole future life of Daniel and Henrietta. And Papa Ravinet and his sister had said, "As for us, even more than that depends upon it."
In obtaining possession of her, he no doubt thought he would secure to himself a large portion of Count Ville-Handry's immense fortune. And hence, she continued in her meditations, hence the hatred between Sir Thorn and M. de Brevan. They both coveted the same thing; and each one trembled lest the other should first get hold of the treasure which he wanted to secure.
He proposed to overcome his aversion to Miss Brandon, and to seek, immediately after her marriage, an introduction at Count Ville-Handry's palace, for the purpose of going there constantly.
Daniel will soon be back!" But the more Henrietta was left to the inspirations of solitude, and compelled to live within herself only, the more she observed all that was going on around her. And she thought she noticed some very strange changes. Never would Count Ville-Handry's first wife have been able to recognize her reception-rooms.
But Count Ville-Handry's only daughter the heiress of many millions, brought up, so to say, in a hothouse, according to the stupid custom of modern society knew nothing at all of life, of its bitter realities, its struggles, and its sufferings. She had nothing but courage. "That is enough," she said to herself. "What we will do, we can do."
"And you dare tell me all these things, me, Count Ville-Handry's own daughter, the daughter of your husband?" "Why not?" asked the countess. And, shrugging her shoulders, she added in a careless tone, "Do you think I am afraid of your reporting me to him? You are at liberty to try it. Listen.
"I confess," he replied with much hesitation, "that I do not understand, that I cannot possibly explain to myself, why you do me the honor" "To consult you? Pardon me; I think you understand me perfectly well. Have they not promised you Miss Ville-Handry's hand?" "The count has permitted me to hope" "He has pledged his word, sir, under certain conditions. My dear count has told me every thing.
"I I have a better memory than you, sir; and I mean to prove it to you. I know what has happened at Count Ville-Handry's house; he has told me all. You have allowed yourself to be carried away so far as to threaten him, to raise your hand against him." "He was going to strike his daughter, and I held his arm."
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