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M. le Duc de Chaulnes, his father-in-law, had spoken to him several times, since his only son had been killed in Spain, of wishing to hand on his title to Norbert ...'One cannot deny that Julien shows a singular aptitude for business, audacity, perhaps even brilliance,' the Marquis said to himself...'But at the back of that character, I find something alarming.