He became once more a great man; he excited the admiration and received the good-will that a few hours earlier were denied to him.

Men praised his patience, his strength of will, his courage, his genius.

The authorities wished to arrest all those who had a share in dealing him this blow.

Too late,--the evil was done! The Claes family were the first to beg that the matter might be allowed to drop.
Marguerite ordered furniture to be brought into the parlor, and the denuded walls to be hung with silk; and when, a few days after his seizure, the old father recovered his faculties and found himself once more in a luxurious room surrounded by all that makes life easy, he tried to express his belief that his daughter Marguerite had returned.
At that moment she entered the room.

When Balthazar caught sight of her he colored, and his eyes grew moist, though the tears did not fall.