CHAPTER XX.
A THUNDERBOLT FROM A CLEAR SKY.
"Mlle.

Virginie Sambucco has the honor to announce to you the marriage of Mlle.

Clementine Sambucco, her niece, to M.Leon Renault, civil engineer.
"M.

and Mme.

Renault have the honor to announce to you the marriage of M.Leon Renault, their son, to Mlle.
Clementine Sambucco; "And invite you to be present at the nuptial benediction which will be given them on the 11th of September, 1859, in the church of Saint Maxcence, in their parish, at eleven o'clock precisely." Fougas absolutely insisted that his name should figure on the cards.
They had all the trouble in the world to cure him of this whim.