This he gave to his son with an open hand, and only gasped when he heard whither it went and how freely Alphonse spent it.
"There is plenty more," he said, "behind." And his little porcine eyes twinkled amid their yellow wrinkles.

"I am a man of substance.

You must be a man of position.

But do not lend to the wrong people.

Rather give to the right and be done with it.