And again he was seized with anguish, and gazing with a look of terror at the door, the walls, the ceiling, he continued pouring forth his single supplication: "Take me away! I cannot bear it any longer! Take me away!" M.Venot took him away as though he had been a child.

From that day forth Muffat belonged to him entirely; he again became strictly attentive to the duties of religion; his life was utterly blasted.

He had resigned his position as chamberlain out of respect for the outraged modesty of the Tuileries, and soon Estelle, his daughter, brought an action against him for the recovery of a sum of sixty thousand francs, a legacy left her by an aunt to which she ought to have succeeded at the time of her marriage.

Ruined and living narrowly on the remains of his great fortune, he let himself be gradually devoured by the countess, who ate up the husks Nana had rejected.

Sabine was indeed ruined by the example of promiscuity set her by her husband's intercourse with the wanton.