It is certain, however, that Cesarine, the residuary legate of the old man, received from his estate only six hundred francs a year.

The chevalier returned to Alencon, cruelly weakened by grief and by fatigue; he died on the very day when Charles X.arrived on a foreign shore.
Madame du Val-Noble and her protector, who was just then afraid of the vengeance of the liberal party, were glad of a pretext to remain incognito in the village where Suzanne's mother died.

At the sale of the chevalier's effects, which took place at that time, Suzanne, anxious to obtain a souvenir of her first and last friend, pushed up the price of the famous snuff-box, which was finally knocked down to her for a thousand francs.

The portrait of the Princess Goritza was alone worth that sum.

Two years later, a young dandy, who was making a collection of the fine snuff-boxes of the last century, obtained from Madame du Val-Noble the chevalier's treasure.