Poor fellow! he is devoted to me." Conyncks entered at the moment and interrupted the conversation.
Marguerite made a sign to her father to say no more, fearing lest he should lower himself in her uncle's eyes.

She was frightened at the ravages thought had made in that noble mind, absorbed in searching for the solution of a problem that was perhaps insoluble.

Balthazar, who saw and knew nothing outside of his furnaces, seemed not to realize the liberation of his fortune.
On the morrow they started for Flanders.

During the journey Marguerite gained some confused light upon the position in which Lemulquinier and her father stood to each other.

The valet had acquired an ascendancy over his master such as common men without education are able to obtain over great minds to whom they feel themselves necessary; such men, taking advantage of concession after concession, aim at complete dominion with the persistency that comes of a fixed idea.