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"A probable thing!"

"Why not? Who ever heard of such an occurrence as this?--a false telegraphic despatch--it is alnals to be rams It was done on purpose for me--I am sure of it"

"Sir," said the baroness humbly, "are you not aware that theto laith him, that orders were issued to arrest him and that this order would have been put into execution if he had not escaped by flight, which proves that he was either uilty? It was a h, which caused the ht, which has caused the minister's secretaries to blacken several sheets of paper, but which has cost me 700,000 francs"

"But, sir," said Hermine suddenly, "if all this is, as you say, caused by M Debray, why, instead of going direct to him, do you come and tell me of it? Why, to accuse the man, do you address the woman?"

"Do I know M Debray?--do I wish to know hiives advice?--do I wish to follow it?--do I speculate? No; you do all this, not I"

"Still it seeed his shoulders "Foolish creature," he exclaied two or three intrigues without being the talk of Paris! But know that if you had even hidden your irregularities froenerally husbands will not see--you would then have been but a faint i the women of the world But it has not been so withthe last sixteen years You ht; but not a step, not an action, not a fault, has escaped me, while you flattered yourself upon your address, and firmly believed you had deceived norance, there is none of your friends, from M de Villefort to M Debray, who has not trembled before me There is not one who has not treated me as the master of the house,--the only title I desire with respect to you; there is not one, in fact, ould have dared to speak of me as I have spoken of them this day I will allow you tome ridiculous, and, above all, I forbid you to ruin me"