Chapter

  1 III   |              was exactly like those of Albert Durer's saints, or those
  2 IV    |             the bench,~with the name, 'ALBERT SAVARON.' "~ ~"The name
  3 IV    |              numbered, as in Besancon, Albert Savaron~was received without
  4 IV    |                 who can~cook a little. Albert Savaron was all the more
  5 V     |                to employ this Monsieur Albert Savaron,~foretelling our
  6 V     |           become incisive.~ ~"Monsieur Albert Savaron is of middle height,
  7 VI    |               and no more was heard of Albert Savaron.~ ~The portrait
  8 VI    |              only too well; while this~Albert Savaron offered many enigmas
  9 VI    |               enigmas to be solved.~ ~"Albert Savaron de Savarus," she
 10 VI    |               Rosalie listened in case Albert Savaron should be~mentioned
 11 VI    |                morning, and to look~at Albert's dressing-room windows.
 12 VI    |                to make longer,~she saw Albert writing, and fancied she
 13 VI    |              necessarily~looked out at Albert Savaron walking in the garden
 14 VI    |                for the most part, like Albert~Savaron, they know it not.~ ~
 15 VII   |                quarter of an hour near Albert. She got to church before
 16 VII   |                in~such a way as to see Albert as he came into church.~ ~
 17 VII   |         produced by her~curiosity. And Albert Savaron, who was really
 18 VII   |             were~doubled.~ ~As soon as Albert had taken a seat, Mademoiselle
 19 VII   |           confessional,~Mass was over. Albert had left the church.~ ~"
 20 VII   |               could perfectly see into Albert Savaron's~rooms. A builder
 21 VII   |             Savaron's private study.~ ~Albert Savaron's brilliant defence
 22 VII   |            reflections, put forward by Albert, were repeated by the ten~
 23 VII   | responsibilities were utterly unknown.~Albert quietly kept the upper hand
 24 VII   |               for the next number with Albert in the garden. It is~needless
 25 VII   |             conversations with Alfred,~Albert would let drop some great
 26 VII   |              the great man. To Alfred, Albert was a man of~genius, of
 27 VII   |             published in France, which Albert henceforth read at home.~
 28 VIII  |               something of the~life of Albert. From the first pages this
 29 VIII  |           Chavoncourt's drawing-~room, Albert had imitated some modern
 30 XIV   |               of this poetical~flight; Albert had taken pleasure in telling
 31 XIV   |                I~love him!"--She loved Albert, and felt in her heart a
 32 XIV   |               not~be mistaken, whether Albert really loved an Italian
 33 XIV   |               of~the house occupied by Albert; of taking advantage of
 34 XIV   |        Besancon~society by introducing Albert to the drawing-room of the
 35 XIV   |              gleam which shone through Albert's nights. The clock~struck
 36 XIV   |             power the means of knowing Albert's~secrets. By the light
 37 XIV   |              the kiosk to help Jerome, Albert's servant, to get across
 38 XV    |              was no doubt forwarded to Albert's~lady-love.~ ~"Oh!" said
 39 XV    |              de Watteville's hand:--~ ~Albert Savaron to Leopold Hannequin.~ ~"
 40 XV    |               under the title of Comte Albert Savaron de Savarus, and
 41 XVI   |             Appeals, under~the name of Albert de Savarus' (another start). '
 42 XVII  |               excellent wife.--Yours,~"ALBERT."~ ~ ~Rosalie read this
 43 XVII  |              suddenly saw the whole of Albert's previous~existence, for
 44 XVII  |               she now fully understood~Albert. Of course, she exaggerated
 45 XVII  |          potent will, and her love for Albert~thenceforth became a passion,
 46 XVII  |                violated the secrecy of Albert's letter to Leopold; she
 47 XVII  |            unpunished, the high-minded Albert~could esteem her. Her conscience
 48 XVII  |               not a proof of love? Oh,~Albert! am I not your wife?"~ ~
 49 XVII  |          Duchess a faithful picture of Albert's life and~feelings.~ ~"
 50 XVIII |                he is to serve Monsieur Albert faithfully. We will confess~
 51 XIX   |              the course of this winter Albert de Savarus had quietly made~
 52 XIX   |              influential contractor.~ ~Albert Savaron de Savarus opined
 53 XIX   |          desires~to seeing and hearing Albert. She had compounded, so
 54 XX    |                knowing as she~did from Albert's letter to Leopold how
 55 XX    |              very early one morning on~Albert de Savarus, having announced
 56 XX    |         frankness, was coldly~heard by Albert.~ ~"Monsieur l'Abbe," said
 57 XX    |      Mademoiselle de Watteville," said Albert~gravely, "and agree as to
 58 XX    |                his room, the day after Albert's~interview with the Abbe,
 59 XX    |                 she is~past thirty; my Albert will not be happy!"~ ~"What
 60 XXI   |                not aware that Monsieur Albert Savaron de Savarus~is a
 61 XXI   |             this Savaron?"~ ~"Monsieur Albert Savaron de Savarus, the
 62 XXI   |              the~danger he was in from Albert's candidature.~ ~But this
 63 XXI   |          secret intentions~of Monsieur Albert de Savarus, pointing out
 64 XXI   |            Rosalie aimed at preventing Albert's election, so as to keep
 65 XXI   |           understood~how much latitude Albert's absorbed state would leave
 66 XXI   |              bring her all the letters Albert might sent to Italy, and
 67 XXI   |              looked for from Besancon. Albert, waiting at home for Alfred~
 68 XXI   |               this absorbing ambition. Albert had appreciated the~priest'
 69 XXI   |             was prepared for it," said Albert in a broken voice.~ ~"You
 70 XXI   |                 Monsieur l'Abbe," said Albert. "We will talk of your~business
 71 XXI   |           speak. Thus~at this meeting, Albert Savarus, feeling the necessity
 72 XXII  |              of the Boucher Committee, Albert~begged for silence, and,
 73 XXII  |              showed a noble impulse.~ ~Albert gave a sketch of his previous
 74 XXII  |             was~clear--the thing which Albert wished to get into their
 75 XXII  |        representative. They all saw in Albert Savaron, Savarus the~great
 76 XXII  |             votes had then been taken, Albert's name would~undoubtedly
 77 XXII  |            every day for two months.~ ~Albert went home quivering. The
 78 XXII  |              had nominated the lawyer, Albert Savaron de~Savarus, as its
 79 XXII  |          interests. Every day, without Albert's being able to discover
 80 XXII  |                clever men would say to Albert's clients, "Will the deputy
 81 XXII  |    Vicar-General never showed himself. Albert rose~and went to bed in
 82 XXII  |         Chavoncourt came~forward; then Albert appeared, and was accused
 83 XXII  |                the~Ministry got fifty, Albert had seventy, Monsieur de
 84 XXII  |             devoted adherents vote for Albert, so as to deceive~the enemy.
 85 XXII  |          deceptive thing in the world. Albert Savarus came home,~putting
 86 XXII  |   self-appointed spies, affected to be Albert's most ardent~opponents
 87 XXII  |          execution could not suffer as Albert suffered~as he went home
 88 XXII  |                 At one in the~morning, Albert, to whom sleep had been
 89 XXII  |              taps sounded on his door; Albert~hastened to open it, and
 90 XXII  |   understanding how great an affection Albert showed him by~this mark
 91 XXIII |                in all."~ ~"Well," said Albert, "we must get seventy-five
 92 XXIII |               two hundred votes?" said Albert, standing stupid with~amazement,
 93 XXIII |                the Abbe.~ ~"How?" said Albert.~ ~"You will marry Mademoiselle
 94 XXIII |               she is inexorable," said Albert, pointing to Francesca.~ ~"
 95 XXIII |                third time.~ ~This time Albert understood. The Vicar-General
 96 XXIV  |             seeing out the old priest, Albert went to bed in the swaddling~
 97 XXIV  |                 etc.~ ~At nine o'clock Albert had not arrived. Madame
 98 XXIV  |               garden.~ ~At ten o'clock Albert de Savarus had not yet appeared.
 99 XXIV  |               went up to the kiosk.~In Albert's rooms all was dark; not
100 XXIV  |                had been very~eager for Albert's election. The Abbe de
101 XXIV  |                    She is in love with Albert Savarus!" thought the Vicar-General.~ ~ ~
102 XXV   |                de Grancey, it was from Albert!"~ ~"How do you know that
103 XXV   |       circumstances which had prompted Albert's~disappearance at the most
104 XXV   |           himself.~Jerome and Monsieur Albert Savaron escorted the gentleman
105 XXV   |               an elector on hearing of~Albert Savaron's flight.~ ~This
106 XXV   |              newspaper. Ten days later Albert de~Savarus was never spoken
107 XXVI  |                had any news from or of Albert~de Savarus. Jerome and Mariette
108 XXVI  |              vain to think any more of Albert, of whom they had had no
109 XXVI  |                had an affection for my Albert, I must at last confess
110 XXVI  |             any information~concerning Albert. This silence was appalling.
111 XXVI  |                separated Francesca and Albert.~They had been simple, but
112 XXVI  |             Watteville had~intercepted Albert's letters to the Duchess
113 XXVI  |             the dying man. Thus, while Albert was~wholly occupied with
114 XXVI  |             she succeeded in imitating Albert's~writing very perfectly.
115 XXVI  |               own~writing for three of Albert's, and the rough copies
116 XXVI  |        perfection. Rosalie, writing in Albert's name, had~prepared the
117 XXVI  |               the marriage ere long of Albert~and Mademoiselle de Watteville.
118 XXVII |             has become of that unhappy Albert?~Has he, perhaps, killed
119 XXVII |               thunderbolt that fell~on Albert's head, and he went off,
120 XXVII |               who can know anything of Albert's~fate, Monsieur Leopold
121 XXVII |                has lost his happiness, Albert must still hope for justification."~ ~
122 XXVII |                perhaps end in bringing Albert back to her.~ ~Not long
123 XXVII |               a power of~attorney from Albert; he called first on Monsieur
124 XXVII |             this out of friendship for Albert. The clerk~from Paris sold
125 XXVII |             had received from Monsieur Albert de Savarus.~ ~On hearing
126 XXVII |              nobody's power to restore Albert to the~life of the world;
127 XXVII |              cloister everything dies. Albert, foreseeing that I should
128 XXVII |                which she~had left when Albert flew thither, she had left
129 XXVII |          living in London. From London~Albert went in search of her to
130 XXVII |               the Duc de Rhetore. When Albert~succeeded in seeing Madame
131 XXVII |                heart. For seven~months Albert had traveled in pursuit
132 XXVII |            married!--what could he do? Albert is dead, quite dead to~the
133 XXVIII|                letter he received~from Albert Savarus:--~ ~"Brother Albert
134 XXVIII|           Albert Savarus:--~ ~"Brother Albert to Monsieur l'Abbe de Grancey,~
135 XXVIII|              the prayers of~ ~"BROTHER ALBERT.~ ~"November 1836."~ ~ ~"
136 XXVIII|           Comte de Soulas?"~ ~"Only if Albert should order it," said she.~ ~"
137 XXVIII|               of immense capabilities, Albert de Savarus, whose career
138 XXVIII|                 who had suspected that Albert~might be innocent, hastily
139 XXVIII|                want to hear more about Albert, come to the Opera ball
140 XXVIII|      Watteville placed~in her hand all Albert's letters, with that written
141 Add   |                the Absolute~ ~Savarus, Albert Savaron de~The Quest of