The Mystery of Orcival, Émile Gaboriau [fiction novels to read TXT] 📗

it not been that a notary called on him personally the other morning with a very gracious letter from Laurence, and an enormous sheet of stamped paper. This was no other than a title deed to M. Plantat’s pretty estate at Orcival, “with furniture, stable, carriage-house, garden, and other dependencies and appurtenances thereunto belonging,” and some neighboring acres of pleasant fields.

“Prodigious!” cried M. Lecoq. “I didn’t help ingrates, after all! I am willing to become a landed proprietor, just for the rarity of the thing.”

Endnotes

Coffee and brandy. ↩

The public pawnbroker establishment of Paris, which has branch bureaus through the city. ↩

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The Mystery of Orcival
was published in 1867 by
Émile Gaboriau.
It was translated from French in 1871 by
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