But he was a roue, and had nothing in common with this booby, who has a talent for painting as an elephant has a trunk--what irony! He married this octoroon to have money.

But it was a base act which freed him from commerce, and permitted him to paint all he wanted, as he wanted.
He allows Steno to love him because she is diabolically pretty, notwithstanding her forty years, and then she is, in spite of all, a real noblewoman, which flattered him.

He has not one dollar's-worth of moral delicacy in his heart.

But he has an abundance of knavery....

Let us, too, strike out his wife.