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But one day at a déjeûner, which had prolonged itself until evening, Mineur insisted on his old friend the Burgundy was old, too accompanying him to Villiers-le-Bel, and not without a motive. He knew Falcroft to be rich, and he would not be sorry to see his capricious and mischievous stepdaughter well settled.
Thomas Couture wrote and discoursed much of his art. Sick man as he was, I heard him talk of art at his country home, Villiers-le-Bel, on the Northern Railway, near Paris. This was in 1878. William M. Hunt's talks on art were fruitful. So are John Lafarge's.
In those days Villiers-le-Bel was a dull town a half-hour from Paris on the Northern Railway, and about two miles from the station. The widow was not long without offers. Her usual answer was to point out the tiny Berenice, playing in the garden with her nurse.
Berenice avoided entering the studio during these sittings. She no longer jested with her mother about the picture, and with Hubert she preserved such an air of dignity that he fancied he had offended her. He usually came to Villiers-le-Bel on an early train three or four times a week and remained at Chalfontaine until ten o'clock. Never but once had a severe storm forced him to stay overnight.
To the astonishment of Villiers-le-Bel, Madame Valerie Côt became Madame Théophile Mineur; on the day of the wedding little Berenice named after a particularly uncanny heroine of Poe's by his relentless French admirer scratched the long features of her stepfather.
After Rudolph Côt, the painter, had achieved celebrity with his historical canvas, The Death of the Antique World, now in the Louvre, he bought the estate of Chalfontaine, which lies at the junction of two highroads: one leading to Ecouen, the other to Villiers-le-Bel.
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