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"Dear me!" she exclaimed, "mother will be home directly." M. de Tregars might as well have waited for her. Henceforth he had nothing to conceal. Yet, after duly deliberating with the young girl, they decided that he should withdraw, and that he would send M. de Villegre to declare his intentions. He then left, and, five minutes later, Mme. Favoral and M. Chapelain appeared.
Among my friends the Count de Villegre alone had the courage to tell me that this was a guilty piece of folly; that the silence of the dupes is the strength of the knaves; that my indifference, which made the rascals rich, would make them laugh too.
"Tregars!" he repeated in a tone of immense surprise. "Yes," said M. de Villegre. "Do you know him, by chance?" "No, sir, no!" "Marius de Tregars is the son of the most honest man I ever knew, of the best friend I ever had, of the Marquis de Tregars, in a word, who died of grief a few years ago, after hum! some quite inexplicable broum! reverses of fortune.
She had just commenced a letter, which she intended to have taken to the Count de Villegre, when a violent ring of the bell made her start; and almost immediately the servant came in, saying, "It is a gentleman who wishes to see you, a friend of monsieur's, M. Costeclar, you know." Mlle. Gilberte started to her feet, trembling with excitement. "That's too much impudence!" she exclaimed.
Suppose I told you, that, in his loyal simplicity, he was but a man of straw in the hands of skillful knaves? Have you forgotten what you once heard the Count de Villegre say?" Mlle. Gilberte had forgotten nothing. "The Count de Villegre," she replied, "pretended that it was time enough still to compel the men who had robbed your father to disgorge." "Exactly!" exclaimed Marius.
I will, therefore, ask your leave to introduce myself: I am General Count de Villegre." Maxence had brought him a chair. "I am ready to hear you, sir," said Mme. Favoral. He sat down, and, with a further effort,
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