Evidently it must have been used otherwise than in the business transactions of the house, and as Geronimo himself told the Signor Turchi that he had lost a considerable amount at play, I am forced in spite of myself to admit the painful truth.
Ten thousand crowns! Can neither virtue nor fidelity be found upon earth?
A child whom I treated as my own son, whom I loved with blind affection, and over whose welfare I would have watched as long as I lived.

And this is the return for all my love! Ah! signor, this ingratitude is like a dagger in my heart." Mr.Van de Werve gazed abstractedly as if in deep thought.

Then he said, seriously: "You are truly unhappy, signor, and I commiserate your sorrow.

How can it be possible?
All is deceit and perfidy.

Geronimo seemed the soul of virtue and loyalty; he lived with so much economy and conducted himself so honorably, that to those who knew him not he might have appeared either a poor man or a precocious miser.