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The battle was now won; she had her work cut out to prevent M. de Renal from going and talking to the supposed author of the anonymous letter.
'To speak to M. Valenod of his anonymous letter is to proclaim throughout Verrieres, or rather in Besancon, throughout the Province, that this petty cit, admitted perhaps imprudently to the friendship of a Renal, has found out a way to insult him.
Moreover she was expecting every moment an avowal of the anonymous letter which he had received overnight, and this avowal never came.
To make the most of his Jesuitical bent, he wrote a letter of nine pages to M. de Renal, in which he informed him of everything that had been said to him, and humbly asked his advice.
It will be M. Valenod, who sees in my banishment to Verrieres the effect of his anonymous letter.'
He had reached this stage in his career when he yielded to the pleasure of writing an anonymous letter.
They are like kings, no one receives so much attention as the minister who, on going home, finds the letter announcing his dismissal.'
Here is a letter which M. le Chevalier de Beauvaisis, attache at the Embassy at Naples, gave me for you when I came away; it is only nine days ago,' Signor Geronimo added, with a sprightly air, looking at Madame de Renal.
For the first time he mentioned to his wife the anonymous letter which he had received two months earlier.
On the morrow, at break of day, M. de Renal received an anonymous letter.
This letter brought him back to the thought of fighting a duel with M. Valenod.
For hours on end she pleaded with him in vain, the latest anonymous letter had determined him.
M. de Renal, heaping a thousand curses on the day on which he had conceived the fatal idea of taking a tutor into his household, forgot the anonymous letter.
The man in black had half risen and was impatiently seeking for a letter in the drawer of his table of firwood which opened with a creak.
'Chelan's letter is short,' he said, as though speaking to himself.
'Sincere!' he repeated, lowering his voice and returning to the letter:'"I ask you for a bursary for Julien; he will qualify for it by undergoing the necessary examinations.
One day, the abbe Pirard opened a letter which seemed to be half obliterated by tears, it was an eternal farewell.
This ending to the letter was almost entirely illegible.
At the time of the examinations, it was perhaps two months since he had spoken to Julien, and yet he was ill for a week, when, on receiving the official letter announcing the result of the competition, he saw the number 198 set against the name of that pupil whom he regarded as the glory of his establishment.
Some weeks later, Julien shuddered on receiving a letter; it bore the Paris postmark.
He was mistaken with regard to the letter; Madame de Renal, under the influence of her friend Madame Derville, was entirely absorbed in her own profound remorse.
M. de La Mole took the trouble to write the covering letter with his own hand.
'He hopes that after you have read this letter, you will find it convenient to start for Paris, in four or five days from now.
The letter was brief:'Rid yourself, my dear Sir, of all these provincial bickerings, come and breathe a calmer air in Paris.
M. de La Mole's letter was to him like the sudden appearance of a surgeon with the duty of performing a painful but necessary operation.
Finally, he wrote to M. de La Mole and composed, for the Bishop's benefit, a letter, a masterpiece of ecclesiastical diction, though a trifle long.
And yet this letter, intended to give M. de Frilair a trying hour with his patron, enumerated all the serious grounds for complaint and descended to the sordid little pinpricks which, after he had borne them, with resignation, for six years, were forcing the abbe Pirard to leave the diocese.
This letter written, he sent to awaken Julien who, at eight o'clock in the evening, was already asleep, as were all the seminarists.
'You know where the Bishop's Palace is?' he said to him in the best Latin; 'take this letter to Monseigneur.
I am glad, my child, to give you this experience before I leave you, for I do not conceal from you that the letter which you are taking contains my resignation.'
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