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Updated: June 19, 2025
The doctor had explained the case at length, and showed that it was absolutely necessary to sacrifice the hair to insure the success of the operation. "'Cut off Claudine's hair! cried he in peremptory tones. 'No. I would sooner lose her. "Even now, after a lapse of four years, Bianchon still quotes that speech; we have laughed over it for half an hour together.
But when she was growing more and more absorbed in her own regrets, and her mother's voice was beginning to sound to her like one in a dream, there came a sudden sharp ring at the door-bell. Could it be Maurice? She grew red as fire while she listened but the door opened and shut, and there were no steps but Claudine's in the hall. The maid came in.
Whenever Elam made a noise like 1000 Frogs he found a lot of well-bred Connoisseurs at his Elbow, all ready to have something unusual brought up from the Cellar. The securing of an Invitation to one of Claudine's formal Dinners was almost as difficult as getting into Luna Park.
After long reflection, the advocate thought of a diabolical stratagem. He burnt all the count's letters establishing the substitution, and he preserved only those which made it probable. These last he went and showed to Albert, feeling sure, that, should justice ever discover the reason of Claudine's death, it would naturally suspect he who appeared to have most interest in it.
"Now it so happened that I discovered Claudine's identity, and could understand the appalling truth of one line which you perhaps overlooked in that letter of hers. It was on this wise."
"For two winters I was a tolerably frequent visitor at du Bruel's house, and I followed Claudine's tactics closely. She had a splendid carriage. Du Bruel entered public life; she made him abjure his Royalist opinions.
We were obliged to go out again; but before we started he went to Claudine's room, knocked, as he always does, and asked for leave to enter. "'We live in grand style, said he, smiling; 'we are free. Each is independent. "We were admitted. Du Bruel spoke to Claudine. 'I have asked a few people to dinner to-day " "'Just like you! cried she.
Merton was now attentive indeed. The miserly marquis had become, to him, something other than a curious survival of times past. There was a chance for Logan, his friend, the last of the name, but Logan was firmly affianced to Miss Markham, of the cloak department at Madame Claudine's.
The Duchesse de Berri's hair is not more beautiful than Claudine's; she would not hear of it, she told Bianchon in confidence that she could not allow it to be cut without leave from the Comte de Palferine. Bianchon went to Charles Edward. Charles Edward heard him with much seriousness.
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