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Updated: May 13, 2025
Oh, it was a happy epoch in our lives an epoch during which vows were registered against being "let in" for such happiness again, or against living it through while a 'bare bodkin' was left unconfiscated. It was the last day of the year, with nothing to elate us but the coming of Bobs. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; ours were so ill that but for Bobs they must have ceased to beat.
I am now on my way secretly, by means of a passport he has sent me, to learn if any of my property in Brittany is still unconfiscated." While the young man spoke Mademoiselle de Verneuil examined him with a penetrating eye.
Here, the wide contrast between the characters of the father and son ended, for the same vaulting ambition which had animated the father, through a long and eventful life, descended upon the son in its full and unstinted measure, whilst in blind and extravagant adherence to the house of Stuart, and the Roman Catholic religion, the son greatly outstripped the father, who had been moderate enough in his political and religious machinations to ensure to him his titles, and cause his estate to remain unconfiscated, and in his own particular keeping.
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