However, madame, I count upon it that you will be able to dispel such doubts as I am fostering.

I count too, upon being at Condillac by the end of week, but I beg that neither you nor my dear Marius will allow this circumstance to make any difference to yourselves, just as, although I am returning to assume the government of Condillac as the Court has suggested to me, I hope that yourself and my dear brother will continue to make it your home for as long as it shall pleasure you.

So long shall it pleasure me.
"I am, my dear marquise, your very humble and very affectionate servant and stepson, "FLORIMOND" When she had read to the end, the Dowager turned back and read aloud the passage: "However, madame, I count upon it that you will be able to dispel such doubts as I am fostering." She looked at her son, who had shifted his position, so that he was now confronting her.
"He has his suspicions that all is not as it should be," sneered Marius.
"Yet his tone is amiable throughout.

It cannot be that they said too much in that letter from Paris." A little trill of bitter laughter escaped her.

"We are to continue to make this our home for as long as it shall pleasure us.