He has more than fortune; he possesses
that which gives fortune."
"He will be minister or ambassador," said Monsieur Mignon.
"That won't hinder tax-payers from having to pay the costs of his
funeral," remarked the notary.
"How so?" asked Charles Mignon.
"He strikes me as a man who will waste all the fortunes with whose
gifts Mademoiselle Modeste so liberally endows him," answered
Latournelle.
"Modeste can't avoid being liberal to a poet who called her a
Madonna," said Dumay, sneering, and faithful to the repulsion with
which Canalis had originally inspired him.
Gobenheim arranged the whist-table with all the more persistency
because, since the return of Monsieur Mignon, Latournelle and Dumay
had allowed themselves to play for ten sous points.
"Well, my little darling," said the father to the daughter in the
embrasure of a window. "Admit that papa thinks of everything. If you
send your orders this evening to your former dressmaker in Paris, and
all your other furnishing people, you shall show yourself eight days
hence in all the splendor of an heiress. Meantime we will install
ourselves in the villa.
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