Monsieur de Chauvelin's Will; To Which Is Added the Woman with the Velvet Necklace

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No, really not. I am very glad to see you. What have you there ? Ah! I beg your pardon, I forgot. A letter for you. So! an autograph? Whose is it? No, it's not an autograph; it's simply a letter, at least so I imagine. Oh! yes, a letter! A letter that came by post and was given me by FraiiQoise to bring to you. Here it is. Thanks. Just put out your hand, please, and give me ? What? A match. Really, I am still as dull and confused as possible. If I were superstitious, I should believe something was going to happen. He took the match I handed him and lighted it in the hot ashes on the hearth. As it burned, the room became brighter and made it possible to distinguish the different objects. Mon Dieu ! I cried suddenly. What's the matter ? Monsieur de Villenave asked, as he lighted the candle. Mon Dieu ! your lovely pastel! What in heaven's name has happened to it ? You see, replied Monsieur de Villenave, sadly, I have put it there by the chimney. I am expecting the picture-framer and the glazier. True, the frame is broken, and the glass shattered into a thousand pieces. Yes, said Monsieur de Villenave, looking at the portrait with a melancholy air, and forgetting his letter. Yes, it's an incomprehensible thing. Why, did some accident happen to it? Day before yesterday I had worked all the evening. It was about a quarter to twelve. I went to bed, placed my candle on my night table, and was preparing to look over the proofs of a small compact edition of my Ovid, when I chanced to cast my eyes on my poor friend's portrait. I nodded a good-night to her as usual. The wind was blowing gently through the window, which had been left open, and it made the flame of my candle flicke...

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