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 CHAPTER X.

" father," said Eugenia, " was at the head of this company of strolling players; my mother was a young lady of respectable family, at a boarding-school. She took a fancy to my father in the character of 'Rolla;' and, being of course deservedly forsaken by her friends, became a prima donna. I was the only fruits of this connexion, and the only solace of my