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Show 171 ter medallion." "You have sons and daughters?" Elise was furth. astonished. "You shall soon meet them," Prentiss spoke fondly. "And their mother?" Elise was anxious to meet her sister-in-law. "She is dead," said Prentiss. "When did she die...and how? "Three years ago...from a severe respiratory illness." "How have you managed to raise them without their mother?" she asked. When he explained that there were eight live-in servants and a governess in the household, Elise remembered the upbringing of her own childhood. "How did you happen to marry a Frenchwoman?" He explained that, because of his extended schooling in France, he had become more of a Frenchman than an Englishman and eventually he had married into French nobility. He loved his wife deeply and theirs had been a rich relationship. He was still feeling the loss from her unexpected and untimely death. "Is that why you returned to England? To help you get over the loss of your wife?" "No, I shall be returning to France soon. I return to England each summer for the sake of the children. I want them to know and respect their English heritage as well as their French." |