Did not Monsieur de Carnavant say to us one day that he would be rich if ever Henri V.should return, and that this sovereign would magnificently recompense those who had worked for his restoration?
Perhaps our fortune lies in that direction.

We may yet be lucky." The Marquis de Carnavant, the nobleman who, according to the scandalous talk of the town, had been on very familiar terms with Felicite's mother, used occasionally to visit the Rougons.

Evil tongues asserted that Madame Rougon resembled him.

He was a little, lean, active man, seventy-five years old at that time, and Felicite certainly appeared to be taking his features and manner as she grew older.

It was said that the wreck of his fortune, which had already been greatly diminished by his father at the time of the Emigration, had been squandered on women.
Indeed, he cheerfully acknowledged his poverty.