Charity and avarice manifest themselves in the same way; charity lays up a treasure in heaven which avarice lays up on earth.

The Abbe Chaperon argued with his servant over expenses even more sharply than Gobseck with his--if indeed that famous Jew kept a servant at all.

The good priest often sold the buckles off his shoes and his breeches to give their value to some poor person who appealed to him at a moment when he had not a penny.

When he was seen coming out of church with the straps of his breeches tied into the button-holes, devout women would redeem the buckles from the clock-maker and jeweler of the town and return them to their pastor with a lecture.

He never bought himself any clothes or linen, and wore his garments till they scarcely held together.