You are afraid he will be condemned; but I say, may it please God his lawyer lets him be convicted.

Go to Issoudun, secure the property for your children.

If you don't succeed, if your brother has made a will in favor of that woman, and you can't make him revoke it,--well then, at least get all the evidence you can of undue influence, and I'll institute proceedings for you.

But you are too honest a woman to know how to get at the bottom facts of such a matter.
I'll go myself to Issoudun in the holidays,--if I can." That "go myself" made Joseph tremble in his skin.

Desroches winked at him to let his mother go downstairs first, and then the lawyer detained the young man for a single moment.
"Your brother is a great scoundrel; he is the cause of the discovery of this conspiracy,--intentionally or not, I can't say, for the rascal is so sly no one can find out the exact truth as to that.