Am I nothing to you--nothing ?" "Is there no other way ?" he asked, gravely, sorrowfully.
She did not reply.

He turned to his grandfather.

"There is no other way," said the old man, sternly.

Then in a voice almost shrill with pain and indignation, he cried out as he had never done in his life: "Nothing, nothing, nothing but disgrace! My God in heaven! a lion-tamer--a gipsy! An honourable name dragged through the mire! Go back," he said grandly; "go back to the woman and her lions--savages, savages, savages!" "Savages after the manner of our forefathers," Gaston answered quietly.
"The first Gaston showed us the way.

His wife was a strolling player's daughter.