- Brilliant young architect Gaston De Nerac returns to London from France to marry his cousin Joanna Rushworth. To prevent Joanna's father from losing his business, Gaston borrows money from a rival suitor with the stipulation that he postpone the marriage and refrain from communication with Joanna for two years. After the suitor convinces Joanna that Gaston bartered her love for money, she marries the suitor. When Gaston learns of this, he begins a reckless, cynical life as a traveling musician known as Paragot. In the London slums, he makes the acquaintance of Asticot, a ragamuffin. They wander through France and Paragot adopts Blanquette, an itinerant singer, after her aged partner dies. Years later, when the happy threesome perform at a peasant wedding, Paragot encounters Joanna, who has learned the truth. After Joanna's husband is killed in the street, she and Paragot plan to marry, but because he is unable to adjust to societal conventions, Paragot marries Blanquette instead.—Pamela Short
- When Gaston De Nerac was awarded the highest honor the French Academy can bestow on an architect, he returned to England to arrange the details of his marriage to his cousin, Joanna Rushworth. To save Joanna's father from financial ruin, Gaston borrows a sum of money from another of Joanna's admirers, the stipulation being that he shall not communicate in any way with Joanna for two years. The scheming lender leads Joanna to believe that her love has been bartered for dollars. She marries him, and Gaston, believing the one perfect creature in the world to have been fickle, gives up everything he holds dearest--art, friends, and future--and assuming the name of Paragot, goes forth into the world a cynic, to bury with the past all his hopes for future. Follows a period of absinthe and recklessness, until he meets Augustus Smith, a lad of 15, to whom he takes a liking, because, forsooth, the boy reads "Paradise Lost," and together they start on a vagabond wandering in which many strange things come to pass. But years have separated these two, and they find, after their formal engagement, that it's no go. Paragot goes forth broken hearted, only to realize, when he gets home, a certain something that startled him, for he finds in a cottage that which he lost in a mansion.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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