A Parisian Romance — page 130: what you’re looking at

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A PARISIAN ROMANCE 121 CHAPTER IX. ALL LOST SAVE HONOR. It can well be imagined that Henri de Targy passed anything but a peaceful night, after the astonishing revelation, which, if he obeyed the dictates of honor and conscience, would plunge him, and his adored Marcelle with him, from affluence to the depths of poverty. Brought up as he had been, with no knowledge of either trade or profession, it was a terrible future to face, and one from which even the bravest man might well shrink. Terrible as it was, however, not once did he falter. His resolution was taken, and he determined to follow the thorny path where honor called him, to the bitter end. | It was not for himself that he cared. In these days, a man of ordinary ability and energy can always make sufficient to support himself. But how would his wife and mother, who had never known want in all their lives, and to whom luxuries had become necessities, endure an existence where, at the best, every sou would have to be looked after. | Marcelle, however, was a source of the greatest comfort to him. Entirely forgetful of her own feel- Gomicbooks (E(o) im