He began as the latter, but he rose rapidly to the more honourable rank in our affections.

He is, I may say, the greatest comfort in our lives.' 'Ha!' said Casimir.

'And previous to becoming one of you ?' 'Jean-Marie has lived a remarkable existence; his experience his been eminently formative,' replied Desprez.

'If I had had to choose an education for my son, I should have chosen such another.

Beginning life with mountebanks and thieves, passing onward to the society and friendship of philosophers, he may be said to have skimmed the volume of human life.' 'Thieves ?' repeated the brother-in-law, with a meditative air.
The Doctor could have bitten his tongue out.