Some said he was the most intelligent, most active, and most scrupulous of men that it was possible to meet.

Others said that no greater scoundrel had ever dared the vengeance of the law, after plundering honest people.
Of German nationality, those who cried him down said he was born at Mayence.

Those who treated the rumors as legends said he was born at Frankfort, the most Gallic town beyond the river Rhine.
He had just completed an important line of railway from Morocco to the centre of our colony in Algeria, and now he was promoting a company for exporting grain and flour from America.

Several times Cayrol had tried to bring Herzog and Madame Desvarennes together.

The banker had an interest in the grain and flour speculation, but he asserted that it would not succeed unless the mistress had a hand in it.