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'How is it,' she asked him the following evening, with an air of indifference which seemed to him unconvincing, 'that you speak to me of _London_ and _Richmond_ in a letter which you wrote last night, it appears, after leaving the Opera?'Julien was greatly embarrassed; he had copied the letter line for line, without thinking of what he was writing, and apparently had forgotten to substitute for the words _London_ and _Richmond_, which occurred in the original, _Paris_ and _Saint-Cloud_.
That evening, as he looked over the original text of the letter which he had copied the night before, he very soon came to the fatal passage where the young Russian spoke of London and Richmond.
Julien was quite surprised to find this letter almost tender.
Her old porter noticed that, when he brought her a letter from that handsome young man, who wore such a melancholy air, he was certain to see vanish the distracted and irritated expression which the Marechale always took care to assume when any of her servants entered the room.
At the second letter, the Marechale was almost brought to a standstill by the unpleasantness of writing with her own hand so vulgar an address as: 'a M. Sorel, chez M. le Marquis de La Mole'.
That same evening he brought a supply of envelopes, and next day, early in the morning, he received a third letter: he read five or six lines at the beginning, and two or three towards the end.
One morning, the porter brought to him in the library a letter from the Marechale; Mathilde met the man, saw the letter, and read the address in Julien's hand.
She entered the library as the porter left it; the letter was still lying on the edge of the table; Julien, busily engaged in writing, had not placed it in his drawer.
'This is what I cannot endure,' cried Mathilde, seizing the letter; 'you are forgetting me entirely, me who am your wife.
She remained frozen with horror on seeing there nine or ten letters unopened, similar in every respect to the letter which the porter had just brought in.
Today is Tuesday; next Tuesday is the day of the Duc de Retz's party; that evening, when M. de La Mole comes home, the porter shall hand him the fatal letter ...
At midnight, on returning home, the Marquis found a letter with the form of address which indicated that he was to open it himself, and only when he was unobserved.
You told me yourself on my return from Hyeres: "This young Sorel is the only person who amuses me"; the poor boy is as greatly distressed as myself, if it be possible, by the pain which this letter must cause you.
'What is to be done?'Julien said to himself while M. de La Mole was reading this letter; 'where do, first of all, my duty, secondly, my interest lie?
'I can see three courses of action,' Julien continued: 'First of all, M. de La Mole may have me put to death'; and he told the abbe of the letter announcing his suicide which he had left with the Marquis; 'secondly, he may have me shot down by Comte Norbert, who will challenge me to a duel.''You would accept?' said the abbe in a fury, rising to his feet.
He had shown her Julien's letter, she trembled lest he should have deemed it noble to put an end to his life: 'And without my permission?' she said to herself with an agony which partook of anger.
Mathilde, with tears in her eyes, informed him that she had seen the letter announcing his suicide.
'I do not wish to know where that man is,' the Marquis said to her one day; 'send him this letter.'
In a moment of ill humour she wrote to her father, and began her letter like Othello:'That I have preferred Julien to the attractions which society offered to the daughter of M. le Marquis de La Mole, my choice of him sufficiently proves.
This letter plunged the Marquis in a strange embarrassment.
M. de La Mole imagined this letter as written, and traced its effect on his daughter's character ...On the day on which he was awakened from these youthful dreams by Mathilde's real letter, after having long thought of killing Julien or of making him disappear, he was dreaming of building up for him a brilliant future.
'My daughter expressed it to me very cleverly the other day' (in a letter which we have suppressed): '"Julien belongs to no drawing-room, to no set."
Forced by his daughter's letter, M. de La Mole saw the necessity of making up his mind: 'Well, here is the great question: has Julien's audacity gone the length of setting him to make love to my daughter, because he knows that I love her more than anything in the world, and that I have an income of a hundred thousand crowns?
Habit, however, prevailed; he resolved to gain time and to write to his daughter; for they communicated by letter between different parts of the house.
If I live apart from my father, at his age, he may forget me ...Norbert will marry some attractive, clever woman: the old Louis XIV was beguiled by the Duchesse de Bourgogne ...'She decided to obey, but refrained from communicating her father's letter to Julien; his unaccountable nature might lead him to commit some act of folly.
It was in the midst of the transports of the most frenzied ambition that he was interrupted by a young footman from the Hotel de La Mole, who arrived with a letter.
Here is his letter; read it.'
Read the letter which I have received in reply to a request for information.
Renounce honestly a vile fellow, and you will regain a father.''Where is Madame de Renal's letter?' said Julien coldly.
This letter, extremely long and half obliterated by tears, was certainly in the hand of Madame de Renal; it was even written with greater care than usual.
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