The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 60: what you’re looking at

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MONSIEUR VOLNEY 41 absorbing, with feelings so deeply moved, yes, and with emotions so conflicting, that I cannot describe them,” and Clarine shuddered as she spoke. ‘‘ Again I say let me hasten and conclude this narrative of mine. The unfortunate mar- chioness, on descending from Mount St. Bernard, was seized with illness at Martigny, — that very village where years be- forehand the valet had been abandoned by his master. There the poor lady died. Alfred Delorme, who had long been unto her as a son, tended her in her last illness, that illness which proved fatal, and he bore her remains to France, where he interred them in the family vault. He then pro- ceeded to Fontainebleau, — and for what purpose, think you. It was to seek an interview with my father, to com- municate to him the fate of his sire, that fate which had Just been cleared up, and likewise to implore on behalf of his deceased parent the forgiveness of my outraged father. Alas! I have too much reason to believe that my father was implacable, and that he swore not merely a continued hatred for the memory of the deceased, but likewise a hatred for that deceased’s son. Alfred departed in sorrow at the failure of his truly Christian purpose, and it was shortly afterward that my father quitted his mansion so suddenly, taking only Marguerite and myself with him, and travelling to the south of France, he settled himself in this chateau, as I explained to you yesterday.” ‘‘ And Marguerite told you all this last night? ”’ said Zoe. ‘Then. must she have been a complete confidante of your father, for your father alone could have revealed to her all that he learned and all that took place on the occasion of that interview between himself and Alfred Delorme.’’ ‘* Marguerite told me all this last night,”’ responded Clarine, and her countenance was buried in her kerchief as she thus spoke. _ : ““T presume,”’ continued Zoe, ‘ that the young viscount experienced no trouble in obtaining possession of his de- ceased father’s estates, and of the title thereto pertaining? ”’ ‘““ He experienced no difficulty,’ answered Clarine. ‘“ Perhaps,’’ resumed Zoe, “‘ your father so suddenly left his own house near Fontainebleau through the apprehension that the ancestral mansion of the Delormes might become the abode of the young viscount, to whom he had sworn such hatred for his father’s sake, and he could not endure the CORNICLOOKS (C(O)