The last course is perhaps better than the rest; at all events it is the easiest.

A wealthy marriage; even if it must be a 'mesalliance.' I think at your age, with your appearance, that your name is worth at least two million francs in the eyes of a rich 'roturier' with an ambitious daughter." "Alas!" said the young man, rising, "I see I shall have to go back to Rochebriant.

I cannot sell my castle, I cannot sell my creed, and I cannot sell my name and myself." "The last all of us did in the old 'regime,' Marquis.

Though I still retain the title of Vandemar, my property comes from the Farmer-General's daughter, whom my great-grandfather, happily for us, married in the days of Louis Quinze.

Marriages with people of sense and rank have always been 'marriages de convenance' in France.