When we see how the business turns out, if we risk only the profits, and if Oscar behaves himself, we may, perhaps, employ him." "Ah! my friend, the catastrophe caused by my poor boy's heedlessness may prove to be the cause of your making a brilliant fortune; for, really and truly, you were burying your energy and your capacity at Presles." Madame Clapart then went on to relate her visit to uncle Cardot, in order to show Moreau that neither she nor her son need any longer be a burden on him.
"He is right, that old fellow," said the ex-steward.

"We must hold Oscar in that path with an iron hand, and he will end as a barrister or a notary.

But he mustn't leave the track; he must go straight through with it.

Ha! I know how to help you.

The legal business of land-agents is quite important, and I have heard of a lawyer who has just bought what is called a "titre nu"; that means a practice without clients.