If he can be kept away from the temptations of Paris, he will end by being a comfort to you." Hearing these consolatory words Agathe's eyes filled with tears.
Philippe played the saint to his mother, for he had need of her.

That wily politician did not wish to have recourse to Cesarine unless he continued to be an object of horror to Mademoiselle Brazier.

He saw that Flore had been thoroughly broken to harness by Max; he knew she was an essential part of his uncle's life, and he greatly preferred to use her rather than send for the ballet-girl, who might take it into her head to marry the old man.

Fouche advised Louis XVIII.

to sleep in Napoleon's sheets instead of granting the charter; and Philippe would have liked to remain in Gilet's sheets; but he was reluctant to risk the good reputation he had made for himself in Berry.