"In fact, I comprehend."
"Travel will distract him from his love; you are a generous rival. Some others in your place, profiting by the occasion, would shut this young man up in some dungeon in this château."
"Oh, how horrible! to betray the confidence of this mere boy."
"In place of that you will give him money, so that he can live like a great lord."
"Could I ever pay him for the treasure I have taken from him?"
The marquis opened a desk, took sixty thousand livres in notes, which he placed in a pocketbook and returned to find Urbain. The young bachelor, as he noted the elegance of the interior of the château, said to himself,—
"It is, perhaps, in a similar abode that Blanche is lamenting at this moment."
"In thinking of what you have told me," said Villebelle, "I recall certain circumstances which might, perhaps, put you on the track of her whom you are seeking."
"O monsieur le marquis, deign to tell me."
"The Marquis de Chavagnac has often made people talk about him by abducting beautiful girls; he has suddenly left Paris, and one may presume that it was on some similar adventure."