CHAPTER V.
THE CLIENTS.The reader may have forgotten the portrait of the stepmother of Madame d’Harville as drawn by the latter. Let us then repeat, that Madame d’Orbigny was a slight, fair, delicate woman, with eyelashes almost white, round and palish blue eyes, with a soft voice, a hypocritical air, insidious and insinuating manners. Any one who studied her treacherous and perfidious countenance would detect therein craft and cruelty.
“What a delightful young man M. de Saint-Remy is!” said Madame d’Orbigny to Jacques Ferrand, when the viscount had left them.
“Delightful! But, madame, let us now proceed to our business. You wrote to me from Normandy that you desired to consult me upon most serious matters.”
“Have you not always been my adviser ever since the worthy Doctor Polidori int
