Finally, none of his friends could ever inoculate him with a passion for the turf.
As doing nothing wearied him, he attempted, like the parvenu, to give some meaning to life by work.

He purposed, after a while, to take part in public affairs; and, as he had often been struck with the gross ignorance of many men in power, he wished to avoid their example.

He busied himself with politics; and this was the cause of all his quarrels with his father.

The one word of "liberal" was enough to throw the count into convulsions; and he suspected his son of liberalism, ever since reading an article by the viscount, published in the "Revue des Deux Mondes." His ideas, however, did not prevent his fully sustaining his rank.

He spent most nobly on the world the revenue which placed his father and himself a little above it.