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Two days after, a considerable croas asse, around the door of M de Villefort's house, and a long file ofthe Faubourg Saint-Honore and the Rue de la Pepiniere Aular form, which appeared to have coon, painted black, and was one of the first to arrive Inquiry was e coincidence, this carriage contained the corpse of the Marquis de Saint-Meran, and that those who had co to attend one funeral would folloo Their nureat The Marquis de Saint-Meran, one of theCharles X, had preserved a great nues whoave Villefort a claiiven to the authorities, and permission obtained that the two funerals should take place at the same time A second hearse, decked with the saht to M de Villefort's door, and the coffin reon The two bodies were to be interred in the ce since had a tomb prepared for the reception of his family The remains of poor Renee were already deposited there, and now, after ten years of separation, her father and mother were to be reunited with her The Parisians, always curious, always affected by funereal display, looked on with religious silence while the splendid procession accompanied to their last abode two of the nureatest protectors of commerce and sincere devotees to their principles In one of the -coaches Beaucha of the very sudden death of the marchioness "I saw Madame de Saint-Meran only last year at Marseilles, when I was coiers," said Chateau-Renaud; "she looked like a woman destined to live to be a hundred years old, froreat activity of mind and body How old was she?"

"Franz assured me," replied Albert, "that she was sixty-six years old But she has not died of old age, but of grief; it appears that since the death of the marquis, which affected her very deeply, she has not completely recovered her reason"

"But of what disease, then, did she die?" asked Debray

"It is said to have been a congestion of the brain, or apoplexy, which is the sa, is it not?"