Bressant

Professor Valeyon regarded his visitor -- a tall and broadly built youth with quick, inquisitive eyes . . . His name was interesting -- Bressant And the young man was himself a strange creature: trained at home to have the most flexible and brilliant of minds -- while being left strangely ignorant of the power of love. Unbeknownst to the professor, his daughters Sophie and Cornelia have already spotted the visitor, and sealed an agreement to never fight over the fine young man -- an agreement doomed from the start. "Bressant" ranks among the best novels by historian and biographer Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) -- the only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne.