He had one daughter, now married to a school-teacher in the rue Saint-Hyacinthe, a Monsieur Barniol.

Phellion's eldest son was a professor of mathematics in a royal college; he gave lectures and private lessons, being devoted, so his father was wont to say, to pure mathematics.

A second son was in the government School of Engineering.
Phellion had a pension of nine hundred francs, and he possessed a little property of nine thousand and a few odd hundred francs; the fruit of his economy and that of his wife during thirty years of toil and privation.
He was, moreover, the owner of a little house and garden where he lived in the "impasse" des Feuillantines,--in thirty years he had never used the old-fashioned word "cul-de-sac"! Dutocq, the clerk of the justice of peace, was also a former employee at the ministry of finance.

Sacrificed, in former days, to one of those necessities which are always met with in representative government, he had accepted the position of scapegoat, receiving, privately, a round sum of money and the opportunity to buy his present post of clerk in the arrondissement.

This man, not very honorable, and known to be a spy in the government offices, was never welcomed as he thought he ought to be by the Thuilliers; but the coldness of his landlords only made him the more persistent in going to see them.