He remained there nearly ten years, and only attained a salary of eighteen hundred francs per annum.

From that time forward it was with ever increasing malevolence and rancour that he hungered for the enjoyments of which he was deprived.

His lowly position exasperated him; the paltry hundred and fifty francs which he received every month seemed to him an irony of fate.

Never did man burn with such desire for self-gratification.

Felicite, to whom he imparted his sufferings, was by no means grieved to see him so eager.