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Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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- English
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From the opening
CHAPTER I. TRANSITION
CHAPTER II. QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE
CHAPTER III. PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER
CHAPTER IV. AT MEUDON
CHAPTER V. MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL
CHAPTER VI. POLITICIANS
CHAPTER VII. THE SPADASSINICIDES
CHAPTER VIII. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD
CHAPTER IX. TORN PRIDE
CHAPTER X. THE RETURNING CARRIAGE
CHAPTER XI. INFERENCES
CHAPTER XII. THE OVERWHELMING REASON
CHAPTER XIII. SANCTUARY
CHAPTER XIV. THE BARRIER
CHAPTER XV. SAFE-CONDUCT
CHAPTER XVI. SUNRISE
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although
the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery
that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to
be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess
the virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason,
announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence,
and thereafter cares for the lad’s rearing and education, the most
unsophisticated of country folk perfectly understand the situation. And
so the good people of Gavrillac permitted themselves no illusions on the
score of the real relationship between Andre-Louis Moreau--as the lad had
been named--and Quintin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gavrillac, who dwelt in the
big grey house that dominated from its eminence the village clustering
below.
Andre-Louis had learnt his letters at the village school, lodged the
while with old Rabouillet, the attorney, who in the capacity of fiscal
intendant, looked after the affairs of M. de Kercadiou. Thereafter, at
the age of fifteen, he had been packed off to Paris, to the Lycee of
Louis Le Grand, to study the law which he was now returned to practise
in conjunction with Rabouillet. All this at the charges of his
godfather, M. de Kercadiou, who by placing him once more under the
tutelage of Rabouillet would seem thereby quite clearly to be making
provision for his future.
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