The worst of it is that everything seems to be in league against him,--circumstances, things, people.

Not an hour passes without bringing some new evidence against him.

The examining magistrate is overwhelmed by it--and blind." "Frederic Larsan, however, is not a novice," I said.
"I thought so," said Rouletabille, with a slightly contemptuous turn of his lips, "I fancied he was a much abler man.

I had, indeed, a great admiration for him, before I got to know his method of working.

It's deplorable.