"Oh! where is she?
where is Max ?" "I don't know," answered Kouski.

"The captain went out without telling me." Gilet thought it politic to be seen sauntering about the town.

By leaving the old man alone with his despair, he knew he should make him feel his desertion the more keenly, and reduce him to docility.

To keep Philippe from assisting his uncle at this crisis, he had given Kouski strict orders not to open the door to any one.

Flore away, the miserable old man grew frantic, and the situation of things approached a crisis.
During his walk through the town, Maxence Gilet was avoided by many persons who a day or two earlier would have hastened to shake hands with him.