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"Ah, some long romance, the 'Clelia, I suppose, nay, bring it hither; that is to say, if it be movable by the strength of a single man." Thus urged, Desmarais modestly brought me the book.
If you are a bad man, you are an unfortunate one; but you are not to be execrated for what you could not prevent."* * Whatever pretensions Monsieur Desmarais may have had to originality, this tissue of opinions is as old as philosophy itself.
"Exactly so," said Desmarais; "all his arguments go to swell the sails of the great philosophical truth, 'Necessity! We are the things and toys of Fate, and its everlasting chain compels even the Power that creates as well as the things created." "Ha!" said I, who, though little versed at that time in these metaphysical subtleties, had heard St.
Between that day and the one on which the funeral occurred the will was copied by Desmarais; only Gerald's name was substituted for yours, and the forty thousand pounds left to him a sum equal to that bestowed on myself was cut down into a legacy of twenty thousand pounds to you.
However, the next day I was declared out of immediate danger; and the first proof I gave of my convalescence was to make Desmarais discharge four surgeons out of five: the remaining one I thought my youth and constitution might enable me to endure.
"Monsieur is very good, but I flatter myself it is so," rejoined Desmarais; and he forthwith ran on far more earnestly on the merits of his powder than I had ever heard him descant on the beauties of Fatalism. I cut him short in the midst of his harangue: too much eloquence in any line is displeasing in one's dependant.
The notary had been long known to, and sometimes politically employed by, Montreuil, for he was half-brother to that Oswald, whom I have before mentioned as the early comrade of the priest and Desmarais. This circumstance, it is probable, first induced Montreuil to contemplate the plan of a substituted will.
John often speak of the strange doctrine to which Desmarais referred, "you are, then, a believer in the fatalism of Spinoza?" "No, Monsieur," said Desmarais, with a complacent smile, "my system is my own: it is composed of the thoughts of others; but my thoughts are the cords which bind the various sticks into a fagot."
The packet is not to be opened till the seventh day; fly before then. But I know," added Desmarais, "where the packet is placed;" and he took Montreuil aside, and for a while I heard not what they said; but I did overhear Desmarais at last, and I learned that it was your bridal night. What felt I then?
I might as well observe here that I had never intrusted Desmarais no, nor one of my own servants with the secret of my marriage with, or my visits to, Isora. I am a very fastidious person on those matters; and of all confidants, even in the most trifling affairs, I do most eschew those by whom we have the miserable honour of being served.
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