Keep the chateau and give up its traditions; remain 'de facto' Marquis of Rochebriant, but accept the new order of things.

Make yourself known to the people in power.

They will be charmed to welcome you a convert from the old noblesse is a guarantee of stability to the new system.

You will be placed in diplomacy; effloresce into an ambassador, a minister,--and ministers nowadays have opportunities to become enormously rich." "That course is not less impossible than the last.

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formally resign his right to the throne of Saint Louis, I can be servant to no other man seated on that throne." "Such, too, is my creed," said the Count, "and I cling to it; but my estate is not mortgaged, and I have neither the tastes nor the age for public employments.