His position in the bank was a lucrative one, and his standing in society of the highest.
His family connections were of the most honorable character, while the affection of his employers for him, would certainly have appealed to his sense of honor, if he possessed any, so strongly that guilt ought to have been impossible.

For Eugene Pearson there was no consideration of regard in my mind.

He had deliberately, and without the slightest cause, violated the most sacred pledges of affection and duty, and had proven recreant to trusts, the very nature of which should have prevented a thought of wrong-doing.

He was not dissipated.

He did not drink to excess, and his part in the gambling operations of his friends had always resulted profitably to himself.