CHATELAINE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Chatelaine

... hear, did not appeal to our Gerard. He sees in the same paper that a fete is going to take place in his old country of the Valois; and when at last he goes home two "faces in the fire" rise for him, those of the little peasant girl Sylvie and of the chatelaine Adrienne—beautiful, triumphant, but destined to be a nun. Unable to sleep, he gets up at one in the morning, and manages to find himself at Loisy, the scene ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury