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ensconced yourself."

"Oh, my dear, good Leon," said she in a coaxing tone, "I could not
resist the happiness of seeing you without your seeing me. My aunt

took me to this ball, and I was very happy there!"
This speech disarmed the Count's looks of their assumed severity, for

he had been blaming himself while dreading his wife's return, no doubt
fully informed at the ball of an infidelity he had hoped to hide from

her; and, as is the way of lovers conscious of their guilt, he tried,
by being the first to find fault, to escape her just anger. Happy in

seeing her husband smile, and in finding him at this hour in a room
whither of late he had come more rarely, the Countess looked at him so

tenderly that she blushed and cast down her eyes. Her clemency
enraptured Soulanges all the more, because this scene followed on the

misery he had endured at the ball. He seized his wife's hand and
kissed it gratefully. Is not gratitude often a part of love?

"Hortense, what is that on your finger that has hurt my lip so much?"
asked he, laughing.

"It is my diamond which you said you had lost, and which I have found.
General Montcornet did not marry Madame de Vaudremont, in spite of the

mutual understanding in which they had lived for a few minutes, for
she was one of the victims of the terrible fire which sealed the fame

of the ball given by the Austrian ambassador on the occasion of
Napoleon's marriage with the daughter of the Emperor Joseph II.

JULY, 1829.
ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

The Vendetta
The Gondreville Mystery

Colonel Chabert
The Seamy Side of History

A Woman of Thirty
Gondreville, Malin, Comte de

The Gondreville Mystery
A Start in Life

The Member for Arcis
Keller, Francois

Cesar Birotteau
Eugenie Grandet

The Government Clerks
The Member for Arcis

Keller, Madame Francois
The Member for Arcis

The Thirteen
La Roche-Hugon, Martial de

The Peasantry
A Daughter of Eve

The Member for Arcis
The Middle Classes

Cousin Betty
Montcornet, Marechal, Comte de

Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The Peasantry

A Man of Business
Cousin Betty

Murat, Joachim, Prince
The Vendetta

The Gondreville Mystery
Colonel Chabert

The Country Doctor
Soulanges, Comte Leon de

The Peasantry
Soulanges, Comtesse Hortense de

The Thirteen
The Peasantry

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