life-maintenance

Updated: May 22, 2025

You have said you are without relations or fortune." "Alas, yes. A provision for life-maintenance at the convent was all the fortune left me." "In that case, I ask you, in the name of my father and mother, to honour them as their guest at La Tournoire.

Robert Neilson Stephens - The Bright Face of Danger : Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire