"'Send and choose one at Madame Law's,' said I; 'you will find them all sitting in her drawing-room.'" Law's triumph was complete; the hour of his fall was about to strike.
At the pinnacle of his power and success the new comptroller-general fell into no illusion as to the danger of the position.

"He had been forced to raise seven stories on foundations which he had laid for only three," said a contemporary, as clear-sighted as impartial.

Some large shareholders were already beginning to quietly realize their profits.
The warrants of the _Compagnie des Indes_ had been assimilated to the bank-notes; and the enormous quantity of paper tended to lower its value.
First, there was a prohibition against making payments in silver above ten francs, and in gold above three hundred.

Soon afterwards money was dislegalized as a tender, and orders were issued to take every kind to the Bank on pain of confiscation, half to go to the informer.

Informing became a horrible trade; a son denounced his father.