"What I have said has been said to his friend and the friend of my own great friend, Judge Carcasson; and I am only anxious that he should be warned by someone whose opinions count with him; whom he can trust--" "But, monsieur, alas!" broke in the Clerk of the Court, "that is the trouble; he does not select those he can trust.

He is too confiding.
He believes those who flatter him, who impose on his good heart.

It has always been so." "I judge it is so still in the case of Monsieur Dolores, his daughter's grandfather ?" the Big Financier asked quizzically.
"It is so, monsieur," replied M.Fille.

"The loss of his daughter shook him even more than the flight of his wife; and it is as though he could not live without that scoundrel near him--a vicious man, who makes trouble wherever he goes.

He was a cause of loss to M.Barbille years ago when he managed the ash-factory; he is very dangerous to women--even now he is a danger to the future of a young widow" (he meant the widow of Palass Poucette); "and he has caused a scandal by perjury as a witness, and by the consequences--but I need not speak of that here.