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It was Rodolphe's letter, fallen to the ground between the boxes, where it had remained, and that the wind from the dormer window had just blown towards the door.
But the respectful tone of the letter deceived him.
As he read the letter addressed to him by M. le Marquis de La Mole, a Peer of France, and the wealthiest landowner in the province, the cure Chelan sat lost in thought.
M. Chelan asked for and obtained a letter of invitation for Julien, who was to accompany him in the capacity of sub-deacon.
That same evening M. de Renal received from the town, with his newspaper, a long anonymous letter which informed him in the fullest detail of all that was going on under his roof.
Julien saw him turn pale as he read this letter, which was written on blue paper, and cast angry glances at himself.
The Tempest_As they left the drawing-room about midnight, Julien found time to say to his mistress: 'Do not let us meet tonight, your husband has suspicions; I would swear that that long letter he was reading with such displeasure is an anonymous one.'
Julien shuddered at the imprudence, turned to page one hundred and thirty and found fastened to it with a pin the following letter written in haste, bedewed with tears, and without the least attempt at spelling.
Go, show this letter to all Verrieres, or rather show it to M. Valenod alone.
What a blessing for me to lose it, to offer it in sacrifice, and to fear no longer for my children!'Doubt not, dear friend, if there be an anonymous letter, it comes from that odious being who, for the last six years, has pursued me with his loud voice, with a list of the jumps his horse has taken, with his fatuity and with the endless enumeration of all his advantages.
'Is there an anonymous letter?
The sacrifice is made; tomorrow, whether there be an anonymous letter or not, I shall tell my husband that I have received an anonymous letter, that he must instantly offer you a large sum to accept another post, find some decent pretext, and send you back without delay to your family.
Still, this is the only way to counteract the effect of this anonymous letter; it is not the first that my husband has received, and on my account too.
How I have laughed at them!'The whole purpose of my scheme is to make my husband think that the letter comes from M. Valenod; I have no doubt that he is its author.
'It is you that are going to provide me with this anonymous letter; arm yourself with patience and a pair of scissors.
If you do not find the words ready made, have the patience to compose them letter by letter.
To spare you trouble, I have cut the anonymous letter short.
Bear in mind that I know your secret; tremble, unhappy woman; henceforward you must tread a straight path, driven by me."'As soon as you have finished pasting together the words that make up this letter (do you recognise the Governor's style in it?)
What a risk I am running, and all because you _thought you detected_ an anonymous letter.
Finally, with a woebegone face, I shall give my husband this letter, which will have been handed to me by a stranger.
I have not time to read my letter through.
As he left his room he came upon his pupils and their mother; she took the letter with a simplicity and courage, the calmness of which terrified him.
From the moment of his opening the anonymous letter, M. de Renal's life had been a burden to him.
He examined the letter from every angle.
Could a man have dictated the letter?
This letter to an intimate friend which had set the whole of Verrieres marvelling at the time, M. de Renal now recalled, word for word, with horror.
She handed him a letter which, though the seal was broken, was still folded.
Without saying a word, for fear of committing himself, M. de Renal examined this second anonymous letter composed, as the reader may remember, of printed words gummed upon a sheet of paper of a bluish tinge.
Overpowered by the necessity of venting his anger on something, he tore up the sheet on which this second anonymous letter was gummed, and strode rapidly away, feeling that he could not endure his wife's company.
He will have spoken of me in that tone in Verrieres; and, without going so far,' said Madame de Renal, with the air of one making a discovery, 'he will have spoken like that before Elisa, which is just as though he had spoken to M. Valenod.''Ah!' cried M. de Renal, making the table and the whole room shake with one of the stoutest blows that human fist ever gave, 'the anonymous letter in print and Valenod's letters were all on the same paper.'
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