Chapter 9 A Marriage in High Life

A month from the time at which this interview took place, everyone worth speaking of in

Paris is busy talking of a singular marriage about to be celebrated in that smaller and

upper circle, which forms the apex of the fashionable pyramid.

The niece and aress of the Marquitas de Ven is about to marry a gentleman of whom the

Fauxborg Saint-Germain knows very little.

But though the Fauxborg knows very little, the Fauxborg has nonwithstanding a great deal

to say, perhaps all the more from the very slight foundation it has for its assertions.

Thus, on Tuesday, the Fauxborg affirms that Monsier Raymond Morole is a German and a political

refugee.

On Wednesday, the Fauxborg rescinds.

He is not a German.

He is a Frenchman, the son of an illegitimate son of Philippe Galate, and consequently

nephew to the king by whose influence the marriage has been negotiated.

The Fauxborg, in short, has so many accounts of Monsier Raymond Morole that it is quite

unnecessary for the Marquitas de Ven to give any account of him whatever, and he alone,

therefore, is silent on the subject.

Germorole is a very worthy man, a gentleman, of course, and his niece is very much attached

to him.

Beyond this, the Marquitas not condescente to enlighten his numerous acquaintance.

How much more might the Fauxborg have to say if it could for one moment imagine the details

of a stormy scene which took place between the uncle and niece at the Château in Normandy.

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