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1 1 | Brittany. In Guerande the Baron du~Guaisnic is one of the
2 1 | not now expect to find~the Baron du Guaisnic sword in hand,
3 2 | II THE BARON, HIS WIFE, AND SISTER~Early
4 2 | Mademoiselle du~Guenic the baron's elder sister, and an only
5 2 | protect the Guenics.~ ~The Baron du Guenic had started from
6 2 | heroes of the West, the baron, preserved by a~miracle
7 2 | feigned utter ignorance of the baron's~existence. In the whole
8 2 | twenty-one years old. The Baron du~Guenic came over to France
9 2 | granite was made man.~ ~The baron had no longer any teeth.
10 2 | attesting the~fact that the Baron had recently joined MADAME
11 2 | faces grouped about the baron, a certain savagery, a stolid~
12 2 | Guerande suggested to the baron that he should go~to Paris
13 2 | gratitude to the king, the baron sustained a siege~at Guerande
14 2 | We must admit that the Baron du Guenic was illiterate
15 2 | naturally explained: the baron had done his duty, that
16 2 | topics of conversation in the baron's~family. There was but
17 2 | of their ancestors. The baron~started in the dead of night,
18 2 | seen service recently. The baron, who considered the~enterprise
19 2 | leading to~the house. The baron looked round upon the circle
20 2 | scarcely thanked him. The baron and his guests uttered neither
21 2 | word of contumely from~the baron's lips about his adversaries.
22 2 | this history~begins, the baron, who, according to ancient
23 2 | rejoice the eyes of the old baron. What a~charming, delicate
24 2 | looked to the horses of the baron and Calyste,~saw that the
25 2 | and probable return of the baron. This retainer~considered
26 2 | When she~learned that the baron was about to bring home
27 2 | commonplace avocations. When the baron begged his sister in his~
28 3 | after prayers," replied the baron,~waking up, "unless Madame
29 3 | women love him," said the baron.~ ~"Here comes Mademoiselle
30 3 | the evening when the~old baron, the young chevalier, and
31 3 | de Pen-Hoel had given the baron ten thousand~francs in gold,
32 3 | frame, like that of the baron, was~bony, and indestructibly
33 4 | Jesuitism, the chevalier and the baron, those wily politicians,
34 4 | gallantries to the sex. The baron also~offered ten counters
35 4 | this vast prodigality the baron and the chevalier were~required
36 4 | the trick."~ ~Often the baron would forget where he was
37 4 | Lenoncourt is dead," said the baron, remembering~the paragraph
38 4 | woman's lips. Whenever the baron made~reflections of that
39 4 | talk of the matter.~"The Baron du Guenic fails," was a
40 4 | Monstrosities?" said the baron, waked up by the word.~ ~
41 4 | Your play, monsieur le baron," she said, with an air
42 4 | des Touches?"~asked the baron.~ ~"She smokes," replied
43 4 | her property?" asked the baron.~ ~"Her property?" continued
44 4 | no sounds echoed from the baron's chamber nor from that
45 5 | About one o'clock the baron, his wife, and Mademoiselle
46 5 | Changed him, how?" asked the baron.~ ~"He reads all sorts of
47 5 | Ah! ah!" exclaimed the baron, "so that's why he has given
48 5 | Mariotte?" exclaimed the old baron. "A Guenic~marry a des Touches!
49 5 | an old family," said the baron; "they bear: gules,~three"
50 5 | baroness.~ ~"Books?" said the baron, looking at his wife with
51 5 | father and went out. The baron and his~wife rose to see
52 5 | dear Fanny," said the old baron, with a jaunty air, "you
53 5 | see~her myself," added the baron, "and tell you all about
54 5 | can then imagine the old baron~entering the lists against
55 6 | salon resembled that of Baron~Gerard, where men of rank
56 8 | took out her knitting. The baron gave his~arm-chair to his
57 8 | lighted up a gulf to her. The baron had gone out; Fanny went
58 8 | career. I can do what the Baron de~Rastignac, now a minister
59 9 | Casterans?" said Fanny to the baron.~ ~"An old Norman family,
60 10 | himself, sister," cried the baron. "Yesterday he~was dull
61 10 | Touches?"~ ~"What?" said the baron; "how can Mademoiselle des
62 10 | marriage to be?" said the baron, believing~that Calyste
63 10 | God keep him!" replied the baron; "for we cannot replace
64 11 | were two defections, the~baron and the chevalier, who went
65 12 | days, accompanied by the baron and Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel,
66 13 | neither the chevalier nor the baron paid any heed to this~truly
67 14 | supposed~himself in France. The baron and baroness, who had made
68 14 | before I die," said the baron to the /paludiers/, who
69 14 | Then he said turning to the baron and~baroness, "Mademoiselle
70 14 | Casteran, father."~ ~The baron bowed to Mademoiselle des
71 14 | doing so than I,"~said the baron to Camille. "You have property
72 14 | more than~thirty," said the baron to his wife. "She is very
73 16 | to-morrow morning," said the baron, whom the~others had thought
74 16 | unusual care, just after the baron had given him, in the dining-room,~
75 16 | few days' grace. The old~baron rubbed his hands with joy,
76 16 | Charlotte, to whom the baron had given a hint, was~sparkling.
77 16 | something to amuse him. The baron, on this, came~out of his
78 16 | utterly passive being. The baron, worn out at last by~fatigue
79 16 | doctors in Nantes.~ ~The baron had received a fatal shock
80 16 | Calyste dying!" said the baron, opening his eyes, from
81 16 | should live!" cried the baron.~ ~"I cannot live without
82 16 | He will live," said the baron, in a shaking voice; "and
83 16 | When the news of the baron's approaching end became
84 16 | shade~and following the baron's coffin as chief mourner.
85 16 | that surrounded them.~ ~The baron's last hours and death had
86 16 | joy.~ ~A week after the baron's funeral, Mademoiselle
87 17 | winter of 1837 the young Baron du Guenic, whose youth~and
88 17 | contract," said the young baron, returning to the~assembled
89 18 | repulsed love.~ ~When the baron du Guenic reached home the
90 18 | leave her little boy. The baron made a~pretext of business
91 18 | opened, in order to admit the baron into the apartment, a~double
92 18 | difficulties. Presently the young baron sat up, put his elbow on~
93 19 | francs which Monsieur le baron lost last night"~ ~"Thirty
94 19 | men? Frankly, monsieur le~baron, I can well believe you
95 25 | fortune was used to free the Baron du Guenic's estates?~Ah!
96 25 | promise you he~shall be a baron at the very least. But you
97 25 | asked to have~him made a baron, and chief-justice in his
98 25 | influence"~ ~"To have you made baron, officer of the Legion of
99 26 | this~happened the Breton baron left a letter for La Palferine.~ ~
100 26 | this scene.~ ~"Monsieur le baron," began Charles-Edouard,
101 26 | you believe, Monsieur le baron, that that unworthy woman
102 26 | foolishly. Ah! Monsieur le baron, all that man has of the
103 Add| Constant-Cyr-Melchior, Baron de~Letters of Two Brides~
104 Add| Francois-Pascal-Simon, Baron~A Bachelor's Establishment~ ~
105 Add| Gaudebert-Calyste-Charles, Baron du~The Chouans~ ~Halga,
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