He has never been known to seize a debtor's goods; he prefers to follow him up without respite for ten years, and tear from him bit by bit what is his due.
He lives near the top of the Rue de la Victoire.

He has no shop, and yet he sells everything saleable, and some other things, too, that the law scarcely considers merchandise.

Anything to be useful or neighbourly.
He often asserts that he is not very rich.

It is possibly true.

He is whimsical more than covetous, and fearfully bold.