Chapter

 1 I   |        out, doctor?”~His eldest son, Pierre, a man of thirty,
 2 I   |      was a pleasure to see. Her son Pierre was wont to say that
 3 I   |          by which he makes your son Jean—Monsieur Jean Roland—
 4 I   |        per cents—to your second son, whom he has known from
 5 I   |    immediately so as to save my son unpleasant consequences
 6 I   |      wish, my dear sir, that my son should at once sign his
 7 I   |        two hands on his younger son’s shoulders, crying:~“Well,
 8 II  |  himself the frame of mind of a son who had inherited a vast
 9 III |      have forgotten their other son, their eldest.~The conversation,
10 III |       shocks between father and son; she turned the conversation,
11 III |        that Jean was Marechal’s son. The agitation which came
12 III |       any one spoke of Roland’s son, the question would be: “
13 III |     glass and was gazing at her son Jean with sparkling eyes;
14 III |      the wind. He looked at his son with fixed, uneasy eyes,
15 III |     warn him. I should be a bad son if I did otherwise.”~Mme.
16 III |       had already forgotten his son’s advice and was eyeing
17 III |        in the town of Havre the son of our worthy friend Roland,
18 III |     thank you—for myself and my son. I shall never forget your
19 IV  |        that Jean was Marechal’s son. Of course he believed it!
20 IV  |         he himself, Pierre, her son—had not he been for these
21 IV  |         brother, was that man’s son.~No. He did not believe
22 IV  |       remain thus graven on her son’s memory.~So Marechal brought
23 IV  |       this if Jean were not his son?~And suddenly a clear and
24 IV  |    above suspicion? And he, her son, had doubted her! Oh, if
25 IV  |     left all his fortune to his son—their son!~And Pierre started
26 IV  |        fortune to his son—their son!~And Pierre started to his
27 V   |        him to be their father’s son. Now he must guard, must
28 V   |        the same room—father and son—were nothing to each other!
29 V   |      other than this father and son. They believed they loved
30 V   |      ever know but he, the true son.~But yet, but yet—if he
31 V   |       it bore a likeness to her son. Without doubt she had for
32 V   |     strike the eye at once. Her son, on the contrary, wished
33 V   |       the judgment of her elder son.~“And you, Pierre, what
34 V   |       and pious respect which a son’s love demands; no brother—
35 V   |        that very morning to her son who had asked her what had
36 V   |      the concentrated fury of a son who had been cheated, robbed
37 V   |      reveal nothing. He was her son; he had no vengeance to
38 V   |         the father and that the son.” It was rather a family
39 V   |         betraying to her doctor son the anguish of her nerves.
40 VI  |        Roland imagined that his son alluded to some girl with
41 VI  |        presence too, and by his son’s strange tone about it,
42 VI  | yourself.” Then, addressing his son, “You surely must see that
43 VI  |       handing the bottle to his son he said:~“Here—do something
44 VI  |         no.”~He appealed to his son.~“But what is the matter
45 VI  |       her with his scorn as her son, that he longed to fling
46 VI  |      was afraid of him, and her son was afraid of her and of
47 VI  |      among the weedy rocks, her son Jean fishing with Mme. Rosemilly.
48 VI  |  looking, straight to her other son.~Seeing her approach, Jean
49 VII |     foreseen and hoped that her son should soon marry; and this
50 VII |     Chinese lantern. Mother and son had here lavished all the
51 VII |      the house and see that her son had all he needed.~“Shall
52 VII |      blabbing— that you are the son of the man who left you
53 VII |      man full of weakness and a son full of love. He remembered
54 VII |        but you.”~“But think, my son, we can never see each other
55 VII |     that your brother, my other son, suspected me, that as the
56 VII |       that you are not Roland’s son without blushing for the
57 VII |     accept the situation as his son, and we will talk of him
58 VII |        the thought of her elder son she was convulsed with terror.~“
59 VIII|        same roof with her elder son. For a long time he sat
60 VIII|           Since I am this man’s son, since I know and acknowledge
61 VIII|    thought: “Since I am not the son of the man I always believed
62 VIII|     since I am not his father’s son. That is but just. Then
63 VIII|      pipe, while the mother and son went upstairs to make ready.~
64 VIII|   accommodating her step to her son’s; then, in the peculiar
65 VIII|    betrayed him, had driven one son to desperation, and had
66 VIII|       that he was another man’s son; and if, after the great
67 VIII|         sweet. She had lost her son, her big boy, but in return
68 VIII|         face of both mother and son. It was the mother who replied:~“
69 VIII|       the street again with her son she said:~“Suppose we go
70 IX  |         care to see it as their son was to sail on board.~Pierre
71 IX  |         herself up, went to her son and offered him first one
72 IX  |     towards it; and she saw her son, her Pierre, with his officer’
73 IX  |      would see no more, was her son, her poor son. And she felt
74 IX  |     more, was her son, her poor son. And she felt as though