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Updated: August 19, 2024
"Industry and talent are good, my Victor," she said, "and they bring comfort, they bring le bienetre in their train; but I do not think all the industry and talent you can display as a surgeon in London will ever enable you to restore the dignity and emulate the wealth of the old Champfontaines."
I have been thinking of the old home that sheltered my grandfather before the sequestrations of '93 the home that could be bought back to-day for an old song, and which a few thousands, judiciously invested, might restore to something of its old grandeur. One of the Champfontaines received Francis I. and his sister Marguerite in the old chateau which they burnt during the Terror.
"True, mother, but the time will come it is not far off now when you and I shall both be set free from poverty, when we shall once more take our place in our own rank when we shall be what the Champfontaines were, and do as the Champfontaines did when this hateful English name shall be thrown aside, and this squalid English home abandoned, and the past restored to us, we to the past."
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