Was it not best not to describe at full length this portion of
poor Clive's history?
CHAPTER LXXVI
Christmas at Rosebury
We have known our friend Florac under two aristocratic names, and might
now salute him by a third, to which he was entitled, although neither he
nor his wife ever chose to assume it. His father was lately dead, and M.
Paul de Florac might sign himself Duc d'Ivry if he chose, but he was
indifferent as to the matter, and his wife's friends indignant at the
idea that their kinswoman, after having been a Princess, should descend
to the rank of a mere Duchess. So Prince and Princess these good folks
remained, being exceptions to that order, inasmuch as their friends could
certainly put their trust in them.
On his father's death Florac went to Paris, to settle the affairs of the
paternal succession; and, having been for some time absent in his native
country, returned to Rosebury for the winter, to resume that sport of
which he was a distinguished amateur.
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