Page:Novels of Honoré de Balzac Volume 23.djvu/375

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RESTITUTION.


"Mademoiselle" he said to her, "I have done you great wrong; but, if all the injury I have done cannot be completely amended, I can atone for some of it. My wife and I, we have made a vow to give yon our entire estate of Le Rouvre in the event of our son's recovery, even as we shall if we have the fearful misfortune of losing him."