The Steel Necklace and Cécile´s Fortune (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Steel Necklace and Cécile´s Fortune It was neither an aristocratic wedding nor one of work people, where each person present settles his own score. There were no private carriages at the door of the restaurant, but the bride and bridegroom had come with their friends in hired landaus, drawn by horses bedecked with ribbons, and driven by coachmen with white gloves. The dinner had been ordered in the suburbs, as in Paris itself rooms where a hundred persons can sit down to table are rather scarce; but the establishment kept by old Cabassol, at Boulogne-sur-Seine, is not a common tavern. It makes a speciality of furnishing wedding-breakfasts and dinners for the wealthy middle classes at a fair price. More than one well-to-do merchant, who is now high up in the world, feasted there on the happiest day of his life, when he made his beginning in business, and thought himself extremely fortunate in having married the daughter of a shop-keeper, with a dowry of a hundred thousand francs. On this occasion the wedding was that of a physician´s daughter and the cashier of a banking-house. The physician had died two years previously, and had left a handsome fortune to his only daughter. The bridegroom merely possessed his salary and a small sum of money he had saved up; but his prospects for the future were bright enough. The banker, in whose employ he was, had promised to take him into partnership, and intended to make him his successor. Edmond Trementin, the husband, was thirty years of age, and Elise Aubrac, his bride, was nineteen. Edmond was a tall, handsome, and very intelligent fellow; Elise was adorably pretty, good, and amiable. Everything augured well for their happiness. There were no mothers-in-law nor fathers-in-law to disturb their conjugal felicity, as they both happened to be orphans. Elise was seated beside M. Verdalenc, the banker by whom her husband was employed, while Edmond, who sat opposite to her, was placed between Madame Verdalenc and Madame Aubrac, a widow and aunt by marriage to his wife. These respectable ladies and this honourable financier had arranged the marriage, which was not entirely a love-match, and they appeared overjoyed at their success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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