Chapter

 1  1,1|       husband, to a very respectable family, as the Maumejans might
 2  3,1|              a way that if I die, my family will not receive one penny.
 3  3,3|         illustrious but impoverished family." ~"You are wrong. My future
 4  5,4|        together, he decided that his family must be very rich to allow
 5  5,6|           that I belonged to a noble family," he began. "The Count de
 6  6,1|              regard for the Chalusse family, and the compassion aroused
 7  6,4|             much that I forgot self, family, honor, and all the most
 8  6,4| distinguishing characteristic of her family in a remarkable degree -
 9  7,5|             a member of the Chalusse family you will begin by disgracing
10  7,5|        rights. He is the head of the family - your master and mine.
11  8,1|           hospitality of the Fondege family. And, to crown all, she
12  8,2|            Valorsay, and the Fondege family, and quite willing to espouse
13  8,2|         should take her meals at the family table, a thing which had
14  8,2|       difficulty. By a search in the family archives she had discovered -
15  8,2|            the descendant of a noble family, and that one of her ancestors
16  9,1|            suspicions of the Fondege family must not be aroused. If
17  9,2|        twenty-four hours the Fondege family had been raised to such
18  9,6|           enemy. She had the Fondege family to dread - these dangerous
19 12,2|              press her. "The Greloux family," she continued, "seem to
20 12,2|              you choose a girl of no family, a girl who is outside the
21 13,2|            God hears me, I'll let my family die of starvation!" ~His
22 13,8|             the mother of a starving family. Besides, it was his ambition
23 15,1|           have passed. You know what family I belong to. I will tell
24 15,1|             means of leaving all the family fortune to my brother, so
25 15,1|             heiress, and forcing her family to give her to him with
26 15,2|             venture to attack such a family as yours.' He spoke in the
27 15,2|             are upon our track? Your family is all-powerful - I am a
28 15,3|              there would have been a family conclave; a compromise would
29 15,6|              like the son of a noble family, while he desired you should
30 15,6|       characteristic of the Chalusse family. While I was wondering how
31 17,4|            gone out. She works for a family in the morning." ~This was
32 18,1|         seemed to be taken up by the family of relatives she had so
33 19,1|            apartments of the Fondege family. "Where is madame?" inquired
34 19,4|              it for her share of the family estate, threatening him