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Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper, and presently said: — “Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone to Clochegourde.”

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Listomere, who, for the last minute, had been listening to the conversation, the meaning of which he could not penetrate.

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On this occasion he talked for nearly half an hour with madame de Listomere, without any predetermined idea of pleasing her.

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Listomere for several days after the adventure, thus allowing the thoughts of that virtuous young woman to crystallize.

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Madame de Listomere ended hers by a formal decision to forbid her porter to admit Monsieur de Rastignac, and to show him, herself, something more than disdain when she met him in society; for his insolence far surpassed that of other men which the marquise had ended by overlooking.

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Consequently, when Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the refusal to admit him, bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably intentional manner, she veiled her thoughts behind one of those feminine smiles which are more impenetrable than the words of

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Listomere no longer despaired of fathoming the new-made wife, whom yesterday she had set down as a dull, unsociable creature, and discoursed on the delights of the country, of dances, of houses where they could visit.

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Mme. de Listomere then and there made up her mind to fathom the depths of this soul, for its exceeding simplicity was as inscrutable as dissimulation.

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Mme. de Listomere had guessed by this time that it was neither

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First mistake: Eugene thought it would be amusing to make Madame de Listomere laugh at the blunder which had made her the recipient of a love-letter which was not intended for her.

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