Although all these hunting parties procured me a most delightful existence, one which might have been indefinitely prolonged had I possessed an income of 20,000 livres, they did not provide a future for a poor devil whose patrimony, in spite of maternal economy, was melting away day by day in a terrible fashion.
I was fifteen years old. It was considered quite time I learnt some profession, and it was decided I should become a lawyer.
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