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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER I
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His father had been an officer in a cavalry regiment, with a fair fortune, which he had nearly squandered in early life.

He had taken Alaric when little more than an infant, and a daughter, his only other child, to reside in Brussels.

Mrs.Tudor was then dead, and the remainder of the household had consisted of a French governess, a _bonne_, and a man-cook.

Here Alaric remained till he had perfectly acquired the French pronunciation, and very nearly as perfectly forgotten the English.

He was then sent to a private school in England, where he remained till he was sixteen, returning home to Brussels but once during those years, when he was invited to be present at his sister's marriage with a Belgian banker.


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