Young Chavoncourt, a youth of
two-and-twenty, and another young gentleman, named Monsieur de
Vauchelles, no richer than Amedee and his school-friend, were his
intimate allies. They made excursions together to Granvelle, and
sometimes went out shooting; they were so well known to be inseparable
that they were invited to the country together.
Rosalie, who was intimate with the Chavoncourt girls, knew that the
three young men had no secrets from each other. She reflected that if
Monsieur de Soulas should repeat her words, it would be to his two
companions. Now, Monsieur de Vauchelles had his matrimonial plans, as
Amedee had his; he wished to marry Victoire, the eldest of the
Chavoncourts, on whom an old aunt was to settle an estate worth seven
thousand francs a year, and a hundred thousand francs in hard cash,
when the contract was to be signed. Victoire was this aunt's
god-daughter and favorite niece. Consequently, young Chavoncourt and
his friend Vauchelles would be sure to warn Monsieur de Chavoncourt
of the danger he was in from Albert's candidature.
But this did not satisfy Rosalie. She sent the Prefet of the
department a letter written with her left hand, signed "_A friend to
Louis Philippe_," in which she informed him of the secret intentions
of Monsieur Albert de Savarus, pointing out the serious support a
Royalist orator might give to Berryer, and revealing to him the deeply
artful course pursued by the lawyer during his two years' residence at
Besancon.
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