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Updated: May 6, 2025
At the age of forty-two, when already worldly-wise and blasé, he had fancied himself in love with the daughter of one of his club friends Marquis de Neufontaine, an old rascal a nobleman, but one whose card-playing was more than open to suspicion, and who would have been expelled from the club more than once but for the influence of M. Godefroy, The nobleman was only too happy to become the father-in-law of a man who would pay his debts, and without any scruples he handed over his daughter a simple and ingenuous child of seventeen, who was taken from a convent to be married to the worldly banker.
His son he loved dearly for several reasons first, because the child was an only son; secondly, because he was a scion of two such houses as Godefroy and Neufontaine; finally, because the man of money had naturally great respect for the heir to many millions. So the youngster had golden rattles and other similar toys, and was brought up like a young Dauphin.
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