disinherited her and gave her her curse. "So affected was she by the
terrible scene that her infant, born soon after, died." The Huberts had
no other children, and after twenty-four years they still mourned the
little one they had lost. She warmly approved of the adoption by her
husband and herself of the foundling child Angelique, whom she treated
with the greatest kindness. From the bitterness of her own experience
she had a horror of disobedience to parents, and when she found that the
consent of Monseigneur d'Hautecoeur could not be obtained to a marriage
between his son Felicien and Angelique, she did all she could to sever
the lovers. In this she was successful for a time, until the illness of
Angelique, and her miraculous recovery, induced the Bishop to give his
consent. Le Reve.

HUE (M.) a retired Government official, who was a sincere lover of art.
He was unfortunately not rich enough to be always buying pictures, and
could only bewail the blindness of the public which allowed a genius
to die of starvation; for he himself, convinced, had selected Claude
Lantier's crudest works, which he hung by the side of his Delacroix,
predicting an equal fortune for them. L'Oeuvre.

HUGON (MADAME), mother of Philippe and Georges Hugon. She was the widow
of a notary, and lived quietly at Fondettes, an old family property near
Orleans, but had retained a house in Paris in Rue de Richelieu. She had
been an old friend of the Marquise de Chouard, and was on intimate terms
with her daughter, the Comtesse Sabine. A woman of high principles, she
believed that one should overlook much in others in order that something
might be pardoned in oneself. In this she contrasted strongly with
her old friend the Marquis de Chouard, who professed the most rigorous
virtue while he secretly lived a shameful life. She was, however, unable
to bear with equanimity the eccentricities of Nana, her neighbour in the
country, who led Philippe Hugon into dishonour, and his brother Georges
to suicide. Nana.

HUGON (GEORGES), the younger son of Madame Hugon. At seventeen years of
age he became infatuated with Nana, and a liaison with her followed. His
mother, having discovered the state of affairs, interfered, and kept him
at Fondettes for some months after Nana had returned to Paris, but
he ultimately followed her there. Though he was not affected by the
knowledge that Nana had other lovers, he was driven to frenzy when
he learned that his brother Phil