le mother and son
still sat on the garden bench, Calyste quivered all over on perceiving
Felicite through the opposite windows of the court-yard and garden.
She reminded him of Beatrix, and his life revived. It was therefore to
Camille that the poor stricken mother owed the first motion of joy that
lightened her mourning.

"Well, Calyste," said Mademoiselle des Touches, when they met, "I want
you to go to Paris with me. We will find Beatrix," she added in a low
voice.

The pale, thin face of the youth flushed red, and a smile brightened his
features.

"Let us go," he said.

"We shall save him," said Mademoiselle des Touches to the mother, who
pressed her hands and wept for joy.

A week after the baron's funeral, Mademoiselle des Touches, the Baronne
du Guenic and Calyste started for Paris, leaving the household in charge
of old Zephirine.

XVII. A DEATH: A MARRIAGE

Felicite's tender love was preparing for Calyste a prosperous future.
Being allied to the family of Grandlieu, the ducal branch of which was
ending in five daughters for lack of a male heir, she had written to the
Duchesse de Grandlieu, describing Calyste and giving his history, and
also stating certain intentions of her own, which were as follows: She
had lately sold her house in the rue du Mont-Blanc, for which a party of
speculators had given her two millions five hundred thousand francs. Her
man of business had since purchased for her a charming new house in
the rue de Bourbon for seven hundred thousand francs; one million she
intended to devote to the recovery of the du Guenic estates, and the
rest of her fortune she desired to settle upon Sabine de Grandlieu.
Felicite had long known the plans of the duke and duchess as to the
settlement of their five daughters: the youngest was to marry
the Vicomte de Grandlieu, the heir to their ducal title;
Clotilde-Frederique, the second daughter, desired to remain unmarried,
in memory of a man she had deeply loved, Lucien de Rubempre, while, at
the same time, she did not wish to become a nun like her eldest sister;
two of the remaining sisters were already married, and the youngest but
one, the pretty Sabine, just twenty years old, was the only disposable
daughter left. It was Sabine on whom Felicite resolved to lay the burden
of curing Calyste's passion for Beatrix.

During the journey to Paris Mademoiselle des Touches revealed to the
baroness these arrangements. The new house in the rue de Bourbo