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We have seen how quietly Madelars and Madeht; the fact being that every one was too much occupied in his or her own affairs to think of theirs We will leave the banker contenitude of his debt before the phanto ht of the blohich had struck her, had gone to seek her usual adviser, Lucien Debray The baroness had looked forward to this uardianship which, over a girl of Eugenie's character, could not fail to be rather a troubleso; for in the tacit relations which maintain the bond of family union, the hter, must never fail to be a lars feared Eugenie's sagacity and the influence of Mademoiselle d'Armilly; she had frequently observed the contehter looked upon Debray,--an expression which seemed to imply that she understood all her mother's amorous and pecuniary relationships with the intienie detested Debray,--not only because he was a source of dissension and scandal under the paternal roof, but because she had at once classed hiue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw fronated as anis without feathers

Unfortunately, in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain ht as others, and Madae of Eugenie had not taken place, not only because the ood, and likely to insure the happiness of her child, but because it would also set her at liberty She ran therefore to Debray, who, after having like the rest of Paris witnessed the contract scene and the scandal attending it, had retired in haste to his club, where he was chatting with some friends upon the events which served as a subject of conversation for three-fourths of that city known as the capital of the world

At the precise tilars, dressed in black and concealed in a long veil, was ascending the stairs leading to Debray's aparte that the youngthe insinuations of a friend, who tried to persuade him that after the terrible scene which had just taken place he ought, as a friend of the falars and her two millions Debray did not defend himself very warmly, for the idea had sometimes crossed his mind; still, when he recollected the independent, proud spirit of Eugenie, he positively rejected it as utterly iain continually recurred and found a resting-place in his heart Tea, play, and the conversation, which had beco the discussion of such serious affairs, lasted till one o'clock in the