"Faith! if it hadn't been for your voice I should never have known you." "Ah! it was monsieur who so bravely rescued the Vicomte Jules de Serizy from the Arabs ?" said Reybert, "and for whom the count has obtained the collectorship of Beaumont while awaiting that of Pontoise ?" "Yes, monsieur," said Oscar.
"I hope you will give me the pleasure, monsieur," said the great painter, "of being present at my marriage at Isle-Adam." "Whom do you marry ?" asked Oscar, after accepting the invitation.
"Mademoiselle Leger," replied Joseph Bridau, "the granddaughter of Monsieur de Reybert.

Monsieur le comte was kind enough to arrange the marriage for me.

As an artist I owe him a great deal, and he wished, before his death, to secure my future, about which I did not think, myself." "Whom did Pere Leger marry ?" asked Georges.
"My daughter," replied Monsieur de Reybert, "and without a 'dot.'" "Ah!" said Georges, assuming a more respectful manner toward Monsieur Leger, "I am fortunate in having chosen this particular day to do the valley of the Oise.

You can all be useful to me, gentlemen." "How so ?" asked Monsieur Leger.
"In this way," replied Georges.

"I am employed by the 'Esperance,' a company just formed, the statutes of which have been approved by an ordinance of the King.