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  1 I     |         was that of the~Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly
  2 I     |            Besancon.~ ~Monsieur de Watteville, a descendant of the famous
  3 I     |           descendant of the famous Watteville, the~most successful and
  4 I     |     nineteenth century Monsieur de Watteville was as gentle and~peaceable
  5 I     |        real estate of the Baron de Watteville. The Swiss~gentleman's coat-of-arms (
  6 I     |           a daughter all Madame~de Watteville's grandparents were dead,
  7 I     |      estates wound up.~Monsieur de Watteville's house was then sold, and
  8 I     |           Rue du Perron. Madame de Watteville,~devout as a girl, became
  9 I     |               Monsieur le Baron de Watteville, a dry, lean man devoid
 10 I     |         say "as~sharp as Madame de Watteville"), some wits of the legal
 11 I     |           the Rupts.~ ~Monsieur de Watteville spent his existence in a
 12 I     |         small things. The Baron~de Watteville treasured shells and geological
 13 I     |           would say of Monsieur de Watteville, "He has a noble soul! He~
 14 I     |            selected by~Monsieur de Watteville, who, to occupy his time
 15 I     |          the~department. Madame de Watteville's fortune was a fine one;
 16 I     |           consequence of Madame de Watteville's close~intimacy with the
 17 I     |        Besancon?" said Monsieur de Watteville, guilelessly.~ ~"At Besancon,"
 18 I     |            lawyer?" said Madame de Watteville. "I~never heard his name
 19 I     |           Comte," said Monsieur de Watteville.~ ~"So little is he a native
 20 I     |            is he?" asked Madame de Watteville, taking the Abbe's arm to~
 21 III   |            Mademoiselle Rosalie de Watteville.~ ~In 1830, at the time
 22 III   |           in 1834,~Mademoiselle de Watteville had reached the age when
 23 III   |            supposed that Madame de~Watteville, thinking she had land enough,
 24 III   |            flatter Mademoiselle de Watteville's conceit.~ ~Madame de Watteville
 25 III   |  Watteville's conceit.~ ~Madame de Watteville was in the secret of the
 26 III   |         regarded him as~Rosalie de Watteville's future husband. There
 27 III   |       certainty.~ ~Mademoiselle de Watteville, to whom her enormous prospective
 28 III   |          she~accompanied Madame de Watteville to other houses to spend
 29 III   |           eighteen Mademoiselle de Watteville was a slight, thin girl
 30 IV    |      romantic daring of the famous Watteville~had reappeared in the soul
 31 IV    |       becomes a volcano. Madame de Watteville alone,~perhaps, suspected
 32 IV    |          by that?" cried Madame de Watteville. "What is the~meaning of
 33 IV    |      famous," said Mademoiselle de Watteville, who~was strong in heraldic
 34 IV    |        heraldry," said Monsieur de Watteville,~"and she knows it very
 35 V     |          about it," said Madame de Watteville.~ ~"The first time I saw
 36 V     |       colors!" exclaimed Madame de Watteville.~ ~"Yes," said the Abbe; "
 37 V     |          paid~him," said Madame de Watteville, watching her daughter,
 38 VI    |        compared by Mademoiselle de~Watteville to that chubby fat Count,
 39 VI    |            of silence.~ ~Madame de Watteville exchanged rapid glances
 40 VI    |        dinner," remarked Madame de Watteville.~ ~"Nor I either," said
 41 VI    |          about it. Mademoiselle de~Watteville impatiently looked forward
 42 VI    |      brought on in Mademoiselle de~Watteville by the portrait which one
 43 VI    |           morning, Mademoiselle de Watteville, while dressing, necessarily~
 44 VI    |       afraid!" replied Monsieur de Watteville, who groaned as~bitterly
 45 VII   |        handsome to~Mademoiselle de Watteville in the frame of mind produced
 46 VII   |            a seat, Mademoiselle de Watteville quickly~found a place whence
 47 VII   |    simplicity to deceive Madame de~Watteville.~ ~From that Sunday, when
 48 VII   |       Sunday, when Mademoiselle de Watteville had met that look,~or, if
 49 VII   |       father does," said Madame de Watteville~drily, "and it is a wife'
 50 VII   |         only it amuses Monsieur de Watteville?"~ ~"Well, because from
 51 VII   |    excellent idea," said Madame de Watteville,~who forthwith went to look
 52 VII   |        approbation to the Baron de Watteville's design,~while choosing
 53 VII   |           very~pretty. Monsieur de Watteville himself is making the chandelier,
 54 VII   |            past.~ ~Mademoiselle de Watteville, with a little flush of
 55 VII   |       hands.~ ~On the day when the Watteville family inaugurated the Belvedere,~
 56 VIII  |           it to me."~ ~Monsieur de Watteville, eager to obey his dear
 57 VIII  |           affection,--~Monsieur de Watteville went in person to subscribe
 58 XIV   |         narrative, Mademoiselle de Watteville's cheeks~were on fire; there
 59 XIV   |           characterized the famous Watteville, was fully~developed in
 60 XIV   |            instant Mademoiselle de Watteville was witness to an incident~
 61 XIV   |     seventeen years with~Madame de Watteville, who valued her highly for
 62 XV    |          me," said Mademoiselle de Watteville~drily. "You let him kiss
 63 XV    |            hours later Monsieur de Watteville said to his daughter:~ ~"
 64 XV    |          letter in Mademoiselle~de Watteville's hand:--~ ~Albert Savaron
 65 XVII  |        heart. Thus Mademoiselle de Watteville had in a few days~reached
 66 XVII  |       address made Mademoiselle de Watteville shiver and redden~and turn
 67 XVIII |    Mariette," said Mademoiselle de Watteville to her maid next morning,~"
 68 XIX   |        fact,~created by the famous Watteville, who in his active old age
 69 XIX   |         upper waters of the Doubs, Watteville had~a huge dam constructed,
 70 XIX   |        canals.~ ~When the Baron de Watteville thus obtained the lake above
 71 XIX   |         old renegade, the old~Abbe Watteville, ended his career by planting
 72 XIX   |           arrival, Mademoiselle de Watteville saw from her bedroom~window
 73 XIX   |          father, "to the notorious Watteville."~ ~"On my word," said the
 74 XX    |        appropriated by the Abbe de Watteville. That would be the end of
 75 XX    |           truth," said Monsieur~de Watteville simply. "The land is an
 76 XX    |          can~certainly win that of Watteville /versus/ Riceys! Besides,"
 77 XX    |           so already. Your name is~Watteville, and you are afraid of a
 78 XX    |        involved," said Monsieur de~Watteville; "and then the Archbishop'
 79 XX    |          oath?" cried the Baron de Watteville.~ ~"What then!" said she.~ ~"
 80 XX    |         the support of Monsieur de Watteville and his party, you~will
 81 XX    |        Devil. Whatever Monsieur de Watteville's business may be, by engaging~
 82 XX    |           Abbe, if Mademoiselle de Watteville had three times her~fortune,
 83 XX    |         more about Mademoiselle de Watteville," said Albert~gravely, "
 84 XX    |        will appear for Monsieur de Watteville,~but after the elections.
 85 XX    |          thinking?" said Madame de Watteville.~ ~"Why, yes, mamma."~ ~"
 86 XXI   |         fine piece~of the great de Watteville's work destroyed."~ ~"The
 87 XXI   |          charming!" said Madame de Watteville.~ ~Two months before the
 88 XXIII |           I have secured Madame de~Watteville, and that means all the
 89 XXIII |           the~young men; Madame de Watteville will get the old ones. As
 90 XXIV  |            in no one but Madame de Watteville, whom we may trust as we~
 91 XXIV  |         clock Madame la~Baronne de Watteville's rooms were crowded by
 92 XXIV  |            will~enable Monsieur de Watteville to win his lawsuit."--"If
 93 XXIV  |         had not arrived. Madame de Watteville was~disposed to regard such
 94 XXIV  |        Savarus."~ ~Mademoiselle de Watteville hastily went to a window
 95 XXIV  |            followed by Monsieur de~Watteville and his daughter, and they
 96 XXIV  |    drawing-room, where Monsieur de~Watteville announced the strange, the
 97 XXV   |           to Mass, Mademoiselle de Watteville heard~from Mariette some
 98 XXV   |         narrative, Mademoiselle de Watteville fell into a~brooding and
 99 XXVI  |    Baroness one day~to Monsieur de Watteville. "She is nineteen, and she
100 XXVI  |            to you," said Madame de Watteville, "that this~decision cost
101 XXVI  |          never/ of Mademoiselle de Watteville," said Rosalie with firm~
102 XXVI  |          you yourself,~Monsieur de Watteville, may take the responsibility
103 XXVI  |            begun between Madame de Watteville and her husband,~who took
104 XXVI  |      Besancon that~Mademoiselle de Watteville had positively refused the
105 XXVI  |         thousand francs. Madame de~Watteville was told that, away from
106 XXVI  |             no doubt, by Madame de~Watteville and Monsieur de Soulas,
107 XXVI  | Vicar-General took Mademoiselle de Watteville~apart, to open the question
108 XXVI  |            of geology, Monsieur de Watteville had gone down the~slope,
109 XXVI  |            struggling. Monsieur de Watteville had dined~heavily, digestion
110 XXVI  |            surgeon. When Madame de Watteville arrived, eight hours later,
111 XXVI  |             they found Monsieur de Watteville~past all hope, in spite
112 XXVI  |           happened, said Madame de~Watteville, if her husband had stayed
113 XXVI  |        formidable. Mademoiselle de Watteville had~intercepted Albert's
114 XXVI  |         Albert~and Mademoiselle de Watteville. The two letters, intended
115 XXVII |          terrified Mademoiselle de Watteville.~ ~"And what ought I to
116 XXVII |         long after Mademoiselle de Watteville's confession a clerk came
117 XXVIII|            stood between Madame de Watteville and her~daughter, to soften
118 XXVIII|           of August 1837~Madame de Watteville was married to Monsieur
119 XXVIII|           to her mother. Madame de Watteville believed in~this affection
120 XXVIII|           rival.~ ~Mademoiselle de Watteville had been declared legally
121 XXVIII|        inheritance of the Baron de Watteville.~Rosalie encouraged her
122 XXVIII|           s share, Mademoiselle de Watteville was still a fortune to~marry,
123 XXVIII|     embroidered on~Mademoiselle de Watteville's stomacher, did more for
124 XXVIII|             She is Mademoiselle de Watteville, the famous Besancon~heiress----"~ ~
125 XXVIII|        ball, where Mademoiselle de Watteville placed~in her hand all Albert'
126 XXVIII|      mother.~ ~ ~ ~Mademoiselle de Watteville, who lived alone on her
127 XXVIII|            her!"~ ~Mademoiselle de Watteville behaves in the most extraordinary
128 XXVIII|    monastery to find a husband,~as Watteville broke through those of his
129 XXVIII|      boiler burst.~Mademoiselle de Watteville was so severely injured