. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . nnounced his desire of establishing him-self in business, having resolved, he said, to live by his ownexertions. So he purchased a wine merchants stock, whichthe duchess paid for, and which he drank in no time. Next, hiswife gave birth to a child, and Madame de Sairmeuse must payfor the baptism as she had paid for the wedding, only toohappy that Chupin did not require her to stand as godmotherto little Polyte, which idea he had at first entertained. On twooccasions Blanche accompanied her husband to Vienna and toLondon, where he went on important dipl
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . nnounced his desire of establishing him-self in business, having resolved, he said, to live by his ownexertions. So he purchased a wine merchants stock, whichthe duchess paid for, and which he drank in no time. Next, hiswife gave birth to a child, and Madame de Sairmeuse must payfor the baptism as she had paid for the wedding, only toohappy that Chupin did not require her to stand as godmotherto little Polyte, which idea he had at first entertained. On twooccasions Blanche accompanied her husband to Vienna and toLondon, where he went on important diplomatic missions. She THE HONOR OF THE NAME 611 remained abroad during three years, and during all that timeshe received at least one letter every week from Chupin. Ah !many a time she envied her victims lot! What was Marie-Annes death compared with the life she led! Her sufferingswere measured by years. Marie-Annes by minutes; and shesaid to herself, again and again, that the tortures of poisoncould not be so intolerable as was her 11 may be asked how it was that Martial had failed to dis-cover or to suspect this singular state of affairs; but a mo-ments reflection will explain his ignorance. The head of afamily, whether he dwells in an attic or in a palace, is alwaysthe last to know what is going on in his own home. He doesnot even suspect circumstances, with which every one else isfully acquainted; and, in Martials case, the life he led wasscarcely likely to lead him to the truth; for after all he andhis wife were virtually strangers to one another. His mannertward her was perfect, full of deference and chivalrous cour-. but they had nothing in common except a name and cer-tain interests. Each lived his own life. They met only atdinner, or at the entertainments they gave—which were consid-ered the most brilliant of Parisian society. The duchess hadher own apartments, her private servants, carriages, horses, andtable. At frve-and-twenty, Martial, the last descendant
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