Chapter

 1 III  |       dearest friend, Count de Vaudrec.”~The two men bowed, gazed
 2 III  |        uncomfortable. Count de Vaudrec’s face was constantly before
 3 IV   | beloved by an old fellow named Vaudrec—he dotes upon her.”~Duroy
 4 VI   |        staircase, he met M. de Vaudrec ascending. The Count seemed
 5 VIII |        been told of a Count de Vaudrec who had dowered and given
 6 X    |        my old friend, Count de Vaudrec, who is in the habit of
 7 X    |    with an air of conviction:~“Vaudrec is charming; you will become
 8 X    |    tell you before dinner, for Vaudrec came. Laroche-Mathieu brought
 9 XIII |        to inquire for Count de Vaudrec, who lived on Chaussee d’
10 XIII |        house in which Count de Vaudrec lived: “How is M. de Vaudrec?
11 XIII |   Vaudrec lived: “How is M. de Vaudrec? I have heard that he has
12 XIII |       did not know what to do! Vaudrec dying! He stammered: “Thanks—
13 XIII |      of breath: “Did you know? Vaudrec is dying!”~She was reading
14 XIII |     did you say?”~“I said that Vaudrec is dying of an attack of
15 XIII |           I do not know.”~“Was Vaudrec very rich?”~“Yes, very.”~“
16 XIV  |        coffin, and by Count de Vaudrec’s nephew, who shook hands
17 XIV  |        What, my friend?”~“That Vaudrec left us nothing.”~She blushed
18 XIV  |      to inform you of Count de Vaudrec’s will, which will be of
19 XIV  |      Cyprien Gontran, Count de~Vaudrec, sound both in body and
20 XIV  |      the family, that Count de Vaudrec had not changed his mind.”~
21 XIV  | hesitate. I may add that M. de Vaudrec’s nephew, who was informed
22 XIV  |      relations between you and Vaudrec?”~Madeleine, who was taking
23 XIV  |    shoulders. “You are absurd. Vaudrec was very fond of me, very,
24 XIV  |     understand how it was that Vaudrec constituted you his sole
25 XIV  |       will is there, signed by Vaudrec.”~He said angrily: “Do you
26 XIV  |    left us jointly by Count de Vaudrec. That is all. You cannot,
27 XV   |    taken the place of Count de Vaudrec; he spoke to the servants
28 XVIII|     how you stole a portion of Vaudrec’s bequest from Madeleine?
29 XVIII|        She is, moreover, rich; Vaudrec and Laroche-Mathieu were
30 XVIII|    thousand francs of Count de Vaudrec’s fortune and he intended