To-day the name appears to you laden with a heavy fault, a crime, if you will; and your conscience revolts.

Renounce this folly.

Children, sir, are accountable to their fathers; and they should obey them.

Willing or unwilling, you must be my accomplice; willing or unwilling, you must bear the burden, as I have borne it.

And, however much you may suffer, be assured your sufferings can never approach what I have endured for so many years." "Ah, sir!" cried Albert, "is it then I, the dispossessor, who has made this trouble?
is it not, on the contrary, the dispossessed! It is not I who you have to convince, it is M.Noel Gerdy." "Noel!" repeated the count.
"Your legitimate son, yes, sir.