I don't know what means Philippe has lately taken to get rid of her.

I am anxious to study this precious little drama, for I am determined to avenge Joseph here.

Alas, friends," he added, in a tone which left his three companions in doubt whether he was jesting or speaking seriously, "give a man over to a vice and you'll get rid of him.

Didn't Hugo say: 'She loved a ball, and died of it'?
So it is.

My grandmother loved the lottery.