[The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link book
The Newcomes

CHAPTER III
6/19

This submission, at first attributed to infidelity, has subsequently been pardoned to my husband.

His sufferings during the Hundred Days made to pardon his adhesion to him who was Emperor.

My husband is now an old man.

He was of the disastrous campaign of Moscow, as one of the chamberlains of Napoleon.

Withdrawn from the world, he gives his time to his feeble health--to his family--to Heaven.
"I have not forgotten a time before those days, when, according to promises given by my father, I became the wife of M.de Florac.
Sometimes I have heard of your career.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books