Chapter

  1 2 |   believed except the truth. The father's sentiment for Marguerite
  2 6 |        at the poste restante? My father and sister must have written
  3 6 |     addresses, "they are from my father and sister. They must have
  4 6 |          letter addressed to his father, and no doubt containing
  5 7 |       when he was well again his father did not even know that he
  6 14|       out forthwith to rejoin my father and my sister, of whose
  7 14|          intend going back to my father's. ~"Good-bye, my dear Marguerite.
  8 14|       diligence for C., where my father lived. ~"You are fortunate,"
  9 16|           I had little money. My father was, and still is, receveur
 10 16|          dowry for my sister. My father is the most honourable man
 11 16|       four summer months with my father, which practically gave
 12 16|        was accustomed to join my father and sister had now arrived,
 13 16|        thought, would console my father for my delay in paying him
 14 18|        there are letters from my father waiting for me. I have no
 15 18|          will fall out with your father, cripple your resources,
 16 18|         were any letters from my father. There were four. ~ ~
 17 19|       his first three letters my father inquired the cause of my
 18 19|         sincere affection for my father. I replied that I had been
 19 19|          I found letters from my father to which I had to reply." ~
 20 19|           I showed Marguerite my father's letters. ~"That is not
 21 19|   thousand francs a year from my father; and, whatever happened,
 22 19|       that every three months my father's solicitor, an old friend
 23 19|       discretion in regard to my father, and on leaving him I rejoined
 24 19|             Sir," said he, "your father has arrived in Paris, and
 25 19|        sent on Joseph to tell my father that I was on my way. Two
 26 20|                   Chapter 20 ~My father was seated in my room in
 27 20|       said: ~"When did you come, father?" ~"Last night." ~"Did you
 28 20|         that the sermon which my father's cold face threatened would
 29 20|           When we were alone, my father rose, and leaning against
 30 20|      discuss." ~"I am listening, father." ~"You promise me to be
 31 20|        and me this year?" ~"Yes, father, I admit it." ~"You are
 32 20|       this woman?" ~"You see it, father, since she has made me fail
 33 20|         forgiveness to-day." ~My father, no doubt, was not expecting
 34 20|         like that?" ~"I fear so, father, but I have not realized
 35 20|      must realize," continued my father, in a dryer tone, "that
 36 20|     every struggle, even with my father, in order that I might keep
 37 20|          live otherwise." ~"Why, father?" ~"Because you are doing
 38 20|           Permit me to tell you, father, that those who have given
 39 20|      position which authorizes a father to say to his son what you
 40 20|       have just said to me." ~"A father is always authorized to
 41 20|           but you will do it." ~"Father!" ~"Sir, I know more of
 42 20|       very sorry to disobey you, father, but it is impossible." ~"
 43 20|         do so." ~"Unfortunately, father, there no longer exists
 44 20|        Recognise that it is your father who speaks to you, your
 45 20|          who speaks to you, your father who has always loved you,
 46 20|             What does it matter, father, if no one will any more?
 47 20|         would you be now if your father had had your ideas and had
 48 20|           leave this woman; your father entreats you." ~I answered
 49 20|            Armand," continued my father, "in the name of your sainted
 50 20|         all but broken with your father, and all but lost his love,
 51 20|         you not?" I felt that my father would be right if it had
 52 20|         trembling voice. ~"Well, father, I can promise nothing,"
 53 20|         your whole fortune." ~My father had probably kept this peroration
 54 20|   mistresses." ~"I swear to you, father, that Marguerite knew nothing
 55 20|      come with me." ~"Pardon me, father," I said, "but I shall not
 56 20|     longer obeys a command." ~My father turned pale at my answer. ~"
 57 20|         up to him. ~"Promise me, father," I said, "that you will
 58 20|       give Marguerite pain?" ~My father stopped, looked at me disdainfully,
 59 21|         her of the scene with my father. ~"My God! I was afraid
 60 21|         came to tell you of your father's arrival I trembled as
 61 21|         do not quarrel with your father on my account. He knows
 62 21|        will have to." ~"But your father will not stop there." ~"
 63 21|          know? Everything that a father can do to make his son obey
 64 21|       you will have to obey your father, and perhaps you will end
 65 21| to-morrow go back to Paris. Your father, too, will have thought
 66 21|       the hotel about twelve. My father had gone out. ~I went to
 67 21|         me," she said. "And your father?" ~"I have not seen him.
 68 21|    enough; you must call on your father again, and you must call
 69 21|     explain to myself. ~Again my father was absent, but he had left
 70 21|       visit, and I showed her my father's letter, from which, I
 71 21|         I will write and tell my father not to expect me." ~"No,
 72 21|    hastily, "don't do that. Your father will accuse me of hindering
 73 21|         the fear of offending my father still more, sustained me,
 74 21|    Marguerite, and went on to my father's; his first glance seemed
 75 21|          mine." ~"May I ask you, father, what was the result of
 76 21|             What are you saying, father?" I cried joyously. ~"I
 77 21|         any one else." ~"My dear father, how happy you make me!" ~
 78 21|       then sat down to table. My father was charming all dinner
 79 21|      watching the time," said my father, "and you are impatient
 80 21|  affections!" ~"Do not say that, father; Marguerite loves me, I
 81 21|        me, I am sure of it." ~My father did not answer; he seemed
 82 21|         it. I had never loved my father as I loved him at that moment. ~
 83 22|         sure that my visit to my father was not an excuse for a
 84 22|     tears all day long, which my father's kind reception had rather
 85 22|    served to confirm it, even my father's kindness. ~Marguerite
 86 22|    between us. ~"Go back to your father, my friend, and to your
 87 22|        Then I remembered that my father was in the same city, that
 88 22|        the key in the door of my father's room; I entered. He was
 89 23|       news had prostrated me. My father profited by this total prostration
 90 23|         was too thankful that my father was willing to console me
 91 23|         again began to flow. ~My father had realized that words,
 92 23|     dared not say anything to my father. I was afraid he would say, "
 93 23|       Shooting had begun, and my father thought that it would be
 94 23|         these details escaped my father, and he was not deceived
 95 23|       the midst of my sadness my father's anxious scrutiny, I pressed
 96 23|          to me; and I went to my father and told him that I had
 97 24|      tour in the East. I told my father I should like to accompany
 98 24|        like to accompany him; my father gave me drafts and letters
 99 25|          how the arrival of your father surprised us at Bougival;
100 25|          Paris, waiting for your father, and he did not return,
101 25|        or other, and to see your father, who wished to speak to
102 25|      been gone an hour when your father presented himself. I won'
103 25|          face made upon me. Your father had the old theory that
104 25|         set her in motion. ~Your father had written me a very polite
105 25|         at this beginning. ~Your father came over to me, took both
106 25|     future destroyed; and I, his father, should receive from only
107 25|      suffer in the presence of a father who should call on you to
108 25|      which, in the mouth of your father, took a yet more serious
109 25|          to myself all that your father dared not say to me, though
110 25|         me, sir," I said to your father, wiping away my tears, "
111 25|       noble child," replied your father, kissing me on the forehead, "
112 25|         it contained, asked your father to have it forwarded to
113 25|      welfare," I answered. ~Your father embraced me once more. I
114 25|    Armand. You told me that your father was the most honest man
115 25|      separation approached; your father was no longer there to support
116 26|   separation. ~I heard that your father had taken you away with
117 26|         This letter is from your father, and this is what it says: ~"
118 26|          letter he sent me. Your father has a noble heart; love
119 26|        thousand francs from your father. I wanted to refuse at first,
120 26|        it, for, coming from your father, it could not be exactly
121 26|         you come back, show your father what I have written for
122 26|        wanted to go and ask your father's friend for money, but
123 26|          that I listened to your father; if I had known that I should
124 26|      received. ~"Come in boldly, father," I said to him. ~He stayed
125 27|       that I read is true." ~"My father confirmed it in a letter." ~
126 27|          Armand to return to his father. He wished me to accompany