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Updated: June 24, 2025
Four days after, the Abbe de Grancey called very early one morning on Albert de Savarus, having announced his visit the day before. The old priest had come to win over the great lawyer to the house of the Wattevilles, a proceeding which shows how much tact and subtlety Rosalie must have employed in an underhand way. "What can I do for you, Monsieur le Vicaire-General?" asked Savarus.
The Baron in his indifference for his wife was to have, and in fact had, forty thousand francs a year left the management of les Rouxey to a sort of factotum, an old servant of the Wattevilles named Modinier. Nevertheless, whenever the Baron and his wife wished to go out of the town, they went to les Rouxey, which is very picturesquely situated.
Then the mother regarded the girl as a dissembler. If by mischance a spark of the true nature of the Wattevilles and the Rupts blazed out, the mother armed herself with the respect due from children to their parents to reduce Rosalie to passive obedience. This covert battle was carried on in the most secret seclusion of domestic life, with closed doors.
"The Wattevilles are having something charming done in their garden," was rumored in Besancon. "They are rich, and can afford a thousand crowns for a whim " "A thousand crowns!" exclaimed Madame de Chavoncourt. "Yes, a thousand crowns," cried young Monsieur de Soulas. "A man has been sent for from Paris to rusticate the interior but it will be very pretty.
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