If you place it in good hands, I do not doubt that you could dispose of the property within three months, on terms that would leave you a considerable surplus, which, invested with judgment, would afford you whereon you could live at Paris in a way suitable to your rank and age.

Need we go further ?--does this course smile to you ?" "Pass on, Count; I will defend to the last what I take from my ancestors, and cannot voluntarily sell their roof-tree and their tombs." "Your name would still remain, and you would be just as well received in Paris, and your 'noblesse' just as implicitly conceded, if all Judaea encamped upon Rochebriant.

Consider how few of us 'gentilshommes' of the old regime have any domains left to us.

Our names alone survive: no revolution can efface them." "It may be so, but pardon me; there are subjects on which we cannot reason,--we can but feel.

Rochebriant may be torn from me, but I cannot yield it." "I proceed to the third course.