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OR, THE SUFFERINGS OF

SAINT ANDRE.

HE father of St. Andre was called Monsieur de Vilmore. He was a man of mean extraction; but in a few years had amassed a prodigious fortune. He had several children of whom our good St. Andre was the youngest. M. de Vilmore aspired to the honour of marrying his daughters into some noble families in order to give distinction to his own by the splendour of his alliance, and being desirous, moreover, to leave his eldest son in the possession of a vast estate. and of exalted rank, he scrupled not to sacrifice the young St. Andre to these ambitious news. He sent this proscribed son to a distant and mean boarding school,