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The Widow Lerouge

CHAPTER VIII
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The count was hardly seated in his carriage before he entered upon the subject of this disagreement.
"I have quarrelled with the Duke de Sairmeuse," said he to his son.
"That seems to me to happen whenever you meet," answered Albert, without intending any raillery.
"True," said the count: "but this is serious.

I passed four days at his country-seat, in a state of inconceivable exasperation.

He has entirely forfeited my esteem.

Sairmeuse has sold his estate of Gondresy, one of the finest in the north of France.

He has cut down the timber, and put up to auction the old chateau, a princely dwelling, which is to be converted into a sugar refinery; all this for the purpose, as he says, of raising money to increase his income!" "And was that the cause of your rupture ?" inquired Albert, without much surprise.
"Certainly it was! Do you not think it a sufficient one ?" "But, sir, you know the duke has a large family, and is far from rich." "What of that?
A French noble who sells his land commits an unworthy act.


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