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So that it was to M. de Frilair himself that Julien gave the letter, but he did not know who he was.
Julien saw with astonishment that this priest boldly opened the
letter
addressed to the Bishop.
Julien was silently watching the abbe as he read over again the
letter
of resignation, when suddenly the door burst open.
I have seen him receive an anonymous or pseudonymous
letter
containing a bill of exchange for five hundred francs.''Ah!
They will never allow Julien Sorel to leave, they will manage to cover themselves with the cleverest excuses, they will reply that he is ill, letters will have gone astray in the post,' etc., etc.'One of these days I shall procure a
letter
from the Minister to the Bishop,' said the Marquis.
'I was forgetting one thing,' said the abbe: 'this young man, although of quite humble birth, has a proud heart, he will be of no use to you if his pride is offended; you will only make him stupid.''I like that,' said the Marquis, 'I shall make him my son's companion, will that do?'Some time after this, Julien received a
letter
in an unknown hand and bearing the postmark of Chalons, and found a draft upon a merchant in Besancon and instructions to proceed to Paris without delay.
The
letter
was signed with an assumed name, but as he opened it Julien trembled: a leaf from a tree had fallen out at his feet; it was the signal arranged between him and the abbe Pirard.
He represented himself to his friend as deprived of his free will by the abbe Pirard's
letter.
'At length, M. Chelan persuaded me to hand them over to him ...Some of them, written with a little more prudence than the rest, had been sent to you; never once did you answer me.''Never, I swear to you, did I receive any
letter
from you at the Seminary.'
'It was a
letter
postmarked _Paris_ and signed Paul Sorel, to avoid all suspicion.'
A short discussion followed as to the possible source of this
letter.
After abundant conjectures as to the source of the
letter
with the five hundred francs, Julien had resumed his narrative; he became rather more his own master in speaking of his past life which, in comparison with what was happening to him at that moment, interested him so little.
He realised that he must now try his last weapon: he came abruptly to the
letter
that he had just received from Paris.
The Marquis notes down, in a word or two, upon the margin of each
letter
that he receives, the type of answer that it requires.
'Comte Norbert,' he said to himself, 'whom I have seen make three rough copies of a
letter
of twenty lines to his Colonel, would be very glad to have written a single page in his life like those of M. Sainclair.'
It was only when he sent in his name that it occurred to Julien that this might be Madame de Renal's young relative, formerly attached to the Embassy at Rome or Naples, who had given the singer Geronimo a
letter
of introduction.
You will write the replies and send them to me, enclosing each
letter
with its reply.
The Marquis laughed heartily at the petition which Julien recited as he made him sign the
letter
applying for this post to the Minister of Finance.
One day the Marquis de Croisenois returned to Mathilde a distinctly compromising
letter
which she had written him the day before.
Think that this is the sort of
letter
that I am going to receive for the rest of my life!
As he took leave of her, she clutched his arm violently:'You will receive a
letter
from me this evening,' she told him in a voice so strained as to be barely audible.
An hour later, a footman handed Julien a letter; it was nothing less than a declaration of love.
A sudden thought occurred to strike Julien as a discovery, interrupt the examination that he was making of Mathilde's letter, and intensify his joy.
To render impossible, perhaps, that marriage with the Marquis de Croisenois, which is the bright spot in his future: if he is not made Duke, at least his daughter will be entitled to a _tabouret_.'Julien thought of starting for Languedoc in spite of Mathilde's letter, in spite of the explanation he had given the Marquis.
After this letter, I am his equal.
The letter, which he kept tightly clasped in his hand, gave him the bearing and pose of a hero.
He said to himself, like his master Tartuffe, whose part he knew by heart:'I might suppose these words an honest artifice Nay, I shall not believe so flattering a speech Unless some favour shown by her for whom I sigh Assure me that they mean all that they might imply.'(Tartuffe, Act IV, Scene V)'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman, and he was as good a man as most ...My answer may be shewn ... a mishap for which we find this remedy,' he went on, pronouncing each word slowly, and in accents of restrained ferocity, 'we begin it by quoting the strongest expressions from the
letter
of the sublime Mathilde.
You rob me of my incitement, the letter, and I become the second volume of Colonel Caron at Colmar.
'One moment, gentlemen, I am going to send the fatal
letter
in a carefully sealed packet to the custody of M. l'abbe Pirard.
'Copy this,' said Julien, giving him Mademoiselle de La Mole's
letter.
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