He was full of attention to his children, and his conversation had the charms of grace, and wit, and pertinence.

This return of fatherly feeling, so long absent, was certainly the truest fete he could give his wife, for whom his looks and words expressed once more that unbroken sympathy of heart for heart which reveals to each a delicious oneness of sentiment.
Old Lemulquinier seemed to renew his youth; he came and went about the table with unusual liveliness, caused by the accomplishment of his secret hopes.

The sudden change in his master's ways was even more significant to him than to Madame Claes.

Where the family saw happiness he saw fortune.

While helping Balthazar in his experiments he had come to share his beliefs.