Then, while Janzen stood near, erect and silent, Bache took a chair and sat down by the bedside with many expressions of friendly interest.

He was a stout man of sixty, with a broad, full face, a large white beard and long white hair.

His little, gentle eyes had a dim, dreamy expression, while a pleasant, hopeful smile played round his thick lips.

His father, a fervent St.
Simonian, had brought him up in the doctrines of that belief.

While retaining due respect for it, however, his personal inclinations towards orderliness and religion had led him to espouse the ideas of Fourier, in such wise that one found in him a succession and an abridgment, so to say, of two doctrines.