I suppose it's with her money that he started that shop.

Seemed to make it pay, too." Ossipon paused abruptly, muttered to himself "I wonder what that woman will do now ?" and fell into thought.
The other waited with ostentatious indifference.

His parentage was obscure, and he was generally known only by his nickname of Professor.
His title to that designation consisted in his having been once assistant demonstrator in chemistry at some technical institute.

He quarrelled with the authorities upon a question of unfair treatment.

Afterwards he obtained a post in the laboratory of a manufactory of dyes.