If he is broken financially, he will never come up again.

Not because of his age--I lost a second fortune at fifty, and have a third ready to lose at sixty--but because the primary initiative won't be in him.

He'll say he has lost, and that there's an end to it all.

His philosophy will come into play--just at the last.

It will help him in one way and harm him in another." "Ah, then you know about his philosophy, monsieur ?" queried M.Fille.
Was Jean Jacques' philosophy, after all, to be a real concrete asset of his life sooner or later?
The Big Financier smiled, and turned some coins over in his pocket rather loudly.