I am about to return to my country; my career is once more before me!" "Your country,--to Paris ?" "There are fine pictures in the Louvre,--a good place to inspire an artist!" "You go alone, Father!" "You forget, young gentleman, you disown me as father! Go alone! I thought I told you in the times of our confidence, that I should marry Lucretia Clavering.

I rarely fail in my plans.

She has lost Laughton, it is true; but 10,000 pounds will make a fair commencement to fortune, even at Paris.

Well, what do you want with me, worthy godson of Honore Gabriel Mirabeau ?" "Sir, if you will let me, I will go with you." Dalibard shaded his brow with his hand, and reflected on the filial proposal.

On the one hand, it might be convenient, and would certainly be economical, to rid himself evermore of the mutinous son who had already thrown off his authority; on the other hand, there was much in Gabriel, mutinous and even menacing as he had lately become, that promised an unscrupulous tool or a sharp-witted accomplice, with interests that every year the ready youth would more and more discover were bound up in his plotting father's.