A Parisian Romance — page 35: what you’re looking at

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26 A PARISIAN ROMANCE, CHAPTER II. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, Henri de Targy was an only son. His father, a man of considerable property, whom Henri resem- bled in neither appearance nor disposition, in fact no father and son could be more unlike, was cold, reserved and self-contained; he frowned upon all emotion and looked upon enthusiasm as something abnormal and disagreeable; with his son’s sensi- tiveness and impulsiveness, he had absolutely no sympathy; from his earliest childhood, it had been fenri’s object to be as little as possible in his father’s presence, and even now, when he had arrived at man’s estate his paternal relative in- variably inspired him with a mingled feeling of fear and repulsion. Madame de Targy, a woman of more than ordinary beauty and attainments, chilled and disappointed, from the earliest days of her - married life, by her husband’s frigidity, had poured forth all the wealth of her affection upon her son, an affection which was fully reciprocated, for Henri adored his mother. The boy’s early education was obtained at the best schools and lyceums of Paris, and, at twenty, he set out for a lengthened tour in foreign lands. Mon- Eomichbooks. co