He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
When a nobleman, for no apparent reason, announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence, a.
Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess the virtue of originality.
His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it.
And that was all his patrimony.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad