Unfortunately, she was short of money, and did not dare to interest him in the dangerous game which her husband was playing.

Antoine now injured them very much among the well-to-do people of the new town.

It sufficed that he was a relation of theirs.
Granoux and Roudier often scornfully reproached them for having such a man in their family.

Felicite consequently asked herself with anguish how they could manage to cleanse themselves of such a stain.
It seemed to her monstrous and indecent that Monsieur Rougon should have a brother whose wife sold chestnuts, and who himself lived in crapulous idleness.

She at last even trembled for the success of their secret intrigues, so long as Antoine seemingly took pleasure in compromising them.