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- The Marriage Contract
The Marriage Contract
Author:
Honoré de Balzac
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Roberts Brothers Subjects: French literature Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing tex
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t. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. THE MARRIAGE-C0NTRACT -- SECOND DAT. The next day Élie Magus (who happened at that time to be in Bordeaux) obeyed Madame à vangélista's summons, believing, from general rumor as to the marriage of Comte Paul with Mademoiselle Natalie, that it concerned a purchase of jewels for the bride. The Jew was, therefore, astonished when he learned that, on the contrary, he was sent for to estimate the value of the mother-in-law's property. The instinct of his race, as well as certain insidious questions, made him aware that the value of the diamonds was included in the marriage-contract. The stones were not to be sold, and yet he was to estimate them as if some private person were buying them from a dealer. Jewellers alone know how to distinguish between the diamonds of Asia and those of Brazil. The stones of Golconda and Visapur are known by a whiteness and glittering brilliancy which others have not, -- the water of the Brazilian diamonds having a yellow tinge which reduces their selling value. Madame à vangélista's necklace and ear-rings, being composed entirely of Asiatic diamonds, were valued by Elie Magus at two hundred and fifty thousand francs. As for the Discreto, he pronounced it one of the finest diamondsin the possession of private persons; it was . known to the trade and valued at one hundred thousand francs. On hearing this estimate, which proved to her the lavishness of her husband, Madame Evangelista asked the old Jew whether she should be able t...
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ISBN-13:
9781150167447
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1150167440
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12/21/2009
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