St. Eustace : Or, the Hundred-And-One : a Novel in Three Volumes 2
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He had been, at the commencement of the war the heir of a millionaire — now he had reduced himself and his family to penury, without any fruits except the establishment of a name, which he trusted might live for ever. But he was not a man who cared for money — he preferred having a competence, that he might have leisure to find Pauline and work out his designs for bettering man- kind : but as he had it not, he was content to work for it. But now what was he to do ? He must face his father and m...other after defeat — humiliation ; but what was always uppermost in his mind, they shared that humiliation — 92 ST. EUSTACE. that defeat. They must now be exiles in a foreign land — the spot where he was born was already undistinguishable from the ploughed land around, and Pauline? Where was she*? Gone, perhaps, for ever. He re- solved upon one thing : his future life should be spent in searching for her. Nor were the thoughts of Hercule and Al- phonse more inspiriting. In truth they formed a gloomy party, those three haggard men in their black dresses, with their faces burnt with the sun, and their hair flying wildly.
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