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His father, though a voluntary exile in manhood, had been in childhood a king's page, and throughout life remained the associate of princes; and here, in an 'avoue's soiree, unknown, unregarded, an expectant on an 'avoue's' patronage, stood the last lord of Rochebriant. It is easy to conceive that Alain did not stay long.
Compelled to return to his province, and by his hard-hearted relations ordained, on penalty of starvation, to marry the daughter of an avoue, for the sake of her dot and a share in the hated drudgery of the avoue's business, his apartment was to be had for a tenth part of the original cost of its furniture.
His father, though a voluntary exile in manhood, had been in childhood a king's page, and throughout life remained the associate of princes; and here, in an 'avoue's soiree, unknown, unregarded, an expectant on an 'avoue's' patronage, stood the last lord of Rochebriant. It is easy to conceive that Alain did not stay long.
Compelled to return to his province, and by his hard-hearted relations ordained, on penalty of starvation, to marry the daughter of an avoue, for the sake of her dot and a share in the hated drudgery of the avoue's business, his apartment was to be had for a tenth part of the original cost of its furniture.
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