CHAPTER I. THAT WHICH WAS LACKING TO PIERROTIN’S HAPPINESS
CHAPTER II. THE STEWARD IN DANGER
CHAPTER III. THE TRAVELLERS
CHAPTER IV. THE GRANDSON OF THE FAMOUS CZERNI-GEORGES
CHAPTER V. THE DRAMA BEGINS
CHAPTER VI. THE MOREAU INTERIOR
CHAPTER VII. A MOTHER’S TRIALS
CHAPTER VIII. TRICKS AND FARCES OF THE EMBRYO LONG ROBE
CHAPTER IX, LA MARQUISE DE LAS FLORENTINAS Y CABIROLOS
CHAPTER X. ANOTHER CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER XI. OSCAR’S LAST BLUNDER
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Monsieur Huguet de Serisy descends in a direct line from the famous president Huguet, ennobled under Francois I.
This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” – a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on “eris,” which word, combined with the “i” at the beginning and the final “s” in “melius,” forms the name (Serisy) of the estate from which the family take their title.
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The count thanked Madame de Reybert coldly, bestowing upon her the holy-water of courts, for he despised backbiting; but for all that, he remembered Derville’s doubts, and felt inwardly shaken. Just then he saw his steward’s letter and read it. In its assurances of devotion and its respectful reproaches for the distrust implied in wishing to negotiate the purchase for himself, he read the truth.
“Corruption has come to him with fortune, – as it always does!” he said to himself.
