Chapter

  1  1,1|               had received that fatal letter from Madame Leon the evening
  2  3,2|              waiting. I received your letter this morning, and I was
  3  3,3|        morning the post brought him a letter from his pretty mistress,
  4  3,3|          Farewell.' On receiving this letter, M. de Chalusse flung himself
  5  5,4|       interesting young man threw the letter into the fire, and went
  6  5,4|            father that arrived, but a letter from M. Patterson, which
  7  5,4|               man of your age." ~This letter proved a terrible blow to
  8  6,5|            evil designs, a visit or a letter from you would only hasten
  9  9,2|       Fortunat must have received her letter by this time: he would undoubtedly
 10  9,2|              a pert voice, "Here is a letter, madame, which has just
 11  9,2|              a heavy blow. "My God! a letter from the Marquis de Valorsay!"
 12  9,2|            reason, told her that this letter threatened her happiness,
 13  9,2|            room and have snatched the letter from her hands. But if she
 14  9,2|           Madame Leon as she read the letter, and gain some information
 15  9,2|             learn the contents of her letter, Madame Leon had not gone
 16  9,2|              words, and laid the open letter upon the rickety chest of
 17  9,2|             had finished she read the letter again, and then placed it
 18  9,2|          determination to obtain that letter took possession of her mind;
 19  9,2|            gaining possession of that letter," she said to herself again
 20  9,3|                The key was there. The letter was within her reach. But
 21  9,4|           arrange, Marguerite saw the letter. She eagerly snatched it
 22  9,4|            resumed her perusal: "Your letter, which I have just received,
 23  9,4|              I regret," continued the letter, "that you did not find
 24  9,4|             of my friends," added the letter "I can place this proud
 25  9,4|            come on Tuesday bring this letter with you. We will burn it
 26  9,4|               by the language of this letter, which was at once so obscure
 27  9,4|             she do? Simply return the letter to its place, and continue
 28  9,4|           other hand, if she kept the letter, Madame Leon would immediately
 29  9,4|               She would show them the letter, and they could take a copy
 30  9,4|              any moment, and find the letter missing; and, to crown all,
 31  9,5|             She drew M. de Valorsay's letter from her pocket, and, showing
 32  9,5|            ask you to photograph this letter - but at once - before me -
 33  9,5|             the person who wrote this letter - - " ~"He could no more
 34  9,5|               some one handed him the letter itself." ~"And the operation
 35  9,5|               of your knowledge. This letter will be returned to its
 36  9,5|            establish by means of this letter, would one of your photographs
 37  9,5|            her, "Will you give me the letter, madame?" ~She hesitated
 38  9,5|             the Marquis de Valorsay's letter, saying, with melancholy
 39  9,5|              fled. "I shall read this letter, madame," said he, "but
 40  9,5|     absolutely perfect facsimile of a letter is a delicate and sometimes
 41  9,5|                and then returning the letter to Mademoiselle Marguerite,
 42  9,6|            and the abstraction of the letter been discovered!" Fortunately,
 43  9,6|              She carefully placed the letter in the drawer again, locked
 44  9,6|           power. He would destroy his letter the next day, and think
 45  9,6|        produce the photograph of this letter, and crush him. And she -
 46  9,6|            contained in the marquis's letter. "Thanks to the assistance
 47  9,6|               facsimile of Valorsay's letter?" I must reveal my secret
 48  9,6|              him a copy of Valorsay's letter, and informing him that,
 49  9,6|              Carjat. She finished her letter, but did not seal it. "If
 50  9,6|              was asleep, she took her letter from her trunk, and added
 51 10,1|             Mademoiselle Marguerite's letter. He read it with intense
 52 10,1|          Vengeance is near. Read this letter." Victor read it slowly,
 53 10,3|             When he had finished this letter he read it over three or
 54 10,3|            ink was dry, he folded the letter and slipped it into an envelope
 55 10,3|        doorway, and, showing them the letter, he politely asked: "Do
 56 10,3|              A gentleman dropped this letter on leaving your place last
 57 10,3|                So as to take him this letter, to be sure!" ~The waiters
 58 10,3|             their shoulders. "Let the letter go; it is not worth while
 59 10,3|              But there's money in the letter," he remonstrated. And opening
 60 10,6|                what did I tell you? A letter to be placed in madame's
 61 10,6|               yet examined the second letter. He now took it from the
 62 10,6|           anything from the party the letter's intended for, you are
 63 10,6|              m on my way. Give me the letter." ~"Here it is, said the
 64 10,6|             be coming out to take the letter to that famous baroness,"
 65 10,6|               even more exacting. The letter he carried burned his pocket
 66 10,6|               furnish evidence if the letter were tampered with. Thus
 67 10,6|               connection between this letter intended for M. de Coralth'
 68 11,1|                Nothing; I bring you a letter, madame." ~"A letter for
 69 11,1|            you a letter, madame." ~"A letter for me! You must be mistaken." ~"
 70 11,1|               she was now reading the letter eagerly, clapping her hands
 71 11,1|              had finished reading the letter. "What did I tell you?"
 72 11,1|               Paul as she took up the letter and read it again with her
 73 11,2|              knew the contents of the letter as perfectly as if he had
 74 11,2|      connection there was between the letter to the baroness and the
 75 11,2|               to the baroness and the letter to Madame Paul. He understood
 76 11,2|             it was the purport of her letter. On receiving it, Coralth
 77 11,2|         Madame Paul reappeared with a letter in her hand. She seemed
 78 11,2|               I can't. If I send this letter, I must forever renounce
 79 11,3|            decide her. She handed the letter to Chupin, and drawing a
 80 11,3|            baroness, on receiving the letter from her maid, had sent
 81 11,3|          Florent had just slipped the letter into his pocket, and was
 82 11,3|            him, and began to tear the letter, and utter a string of oaths
 83 11,4|         facsimile of M. de Valorsay's letter. Several circumstances combined
 84 11,4|      Marguerite. You have received my letter, I suppose?" ~M. Fortunat
 85 11,4|            visitor to sit down. "Your letter reached me, mademoiselle,"
 86 11,4|             after the receipt of your letter I began the campaign." ~"
 87 11,5|               has in his possession a letter, or a will, or a document
 88 11,5|           There will be a word in one letter, a sentence in another,
 89 12,4|           more inexcusable since this letter is only a copy," she observed,
 90 12,4|               and read: "(Model 198). Letter from a young lady who has
 91 12,4|             most probably. As for the letter itself, it must have been
 92 12,4|            proving that the pretended letter from Mademoiselle Marguerite
 93 15,1|             write to me. The moment a letter addressed to me in an unknown
 94 15,1|              to be absent; I kept the letter, I read it, I answered it -
 95 16,4|           that by destroying a single letter he would annihilate all
 96 16,4|             hands.' And I will show a letter establishing the truth of
 97 18,1|             What did M. de Valorsay's letter mean? and what was the fate
 98 18,1|       Marguerite was just beginning a letter to her friend the old magistrate,
 99 18,1|              all, and by reading this letter as soon as possible.: ~The
100 18,1|              had finished reading the letter. "What answer shall I take
101 18,4|               opportunity to post her letter on the following day. This
102 19,2|             So possible that I have a letter for you from M. Ferailleur
103 19,2|             proof of the compromising letter written by the Marquis de
104 19,2|            hour appointed in Pascal's letter. Fortunately none of her
105 19,3|            and had trusted her with a letter for you in which I entreated
106 19,4|          incomprehensible to you. The letter which M. de Chalusse received
107 19,4| acknowledgment of it in the form of a letter, which read as follows: ~"'
108 19,4|             the day she presents this letter. And believe, my dear count,
109 19,4|             his 'old comrade' on this letter, which was folded and sealed,
110 19,4|               copy of M. de Fondege's letter. Having done this, he placed
111 19,4|             same time as the original letter. A few moments later he
112 19,4|           Then it is the copy of this letter which you saw in the possession
113 19,4|            Chalusse to watch for this letter and return it to him. But
114 19,4|         Fondege, he believes that the letter which proves his guilt is
115 19,4|           marvellous facsimile of the letter which the marquis had written