A Parisian Romance — page 105: what you’re looking at

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96 A PARISIAN ROMANCE. CHAPTER VIII. ROSA’S SPECULATIONS. Baron Chevrial resided in a superb hotel in one of the most exclusive streets of the Fauborg Saint Germain. It had formerly been the property of a noble family belonging to the ancient regime, who had been forced by poverty to part with it, and it had been bought by Chevrial’s father, a baron of the Second Empire, who was of partial Semitic origin and who, by financial aid to the government, had purchased his title at the time when Napoleon III. was bestowing patents of nobility with a liberal hand. Both the present baron and his father had had the good taste to leave the fine old mansion undisturbed by the vandal hand of the modern architect. The house stood some distance back from the street, and before it, surrounded by a high wall, was a garden of considerable extent, planted with magnificent old trees. The Chevrials had at first been completely ignored by the aristocratic Fauborg, but, one by one, the golden key had unlocked the doors, and to day the baron was received in the most fashionable circles. His marriage to Armande d’ Ambleuse, who was connected with some of the most exclusive of the Eomicbooks. co