"Look here, Godeschal, you are a fine fellow, but that little Husson does not deserve such generosity.

I hate idiots, but I hate still more the men who will go wrong in spite of the fatherly care which watches over them." He gave Godeschal Mariette's letter and the five-hundred-franc note which she had sent.

"You must excuse my having opened it," he said, "but your sister's maid told me it was on business.

Dismiss Husson." "Poor unhappy boy! what grief he has caused me!" said Godeschal, "that tall ne'er-do-well of a Georges Marest is his evil genius; he ought to flee him like the plague; if not, he'll bring him to some third disgrace." "What do you mean by that ?" asked Desroches.
Godeschal then related briefly the affair of the journey to Presles.
"Ah! yes," said the lawyer, "I remember Joseph Bridau told me that story about the time it happened.

It is to that meeting that we owe the favor Monsieur de Serizy has since shown in the matter of Joseph's brother, Philippe Bridau." At this moment Moreau, to whom the case of the Vandernesse estate was of much importance, entered the office.