She was a wretch, and he this time thought himself for ever cured of his passion.

To tell the truth, he forgot it as soon as he opened the morning newspapers.

The publication of the list of bribe-takers in the "Voix du Peuple" quite upset him, for he had hitherto thought it unlikely that Sagnier held any such list.

However, he judged the document at a glance, at once separating the few truths it contained from a mass of foolishness and falsehood.

And this time also he did not consider himself personally in danger.