The man with the green eyes possessed one quality in common with Socrates, he was master in the art of interrogating, and Mlle.

Moiseney loved to talk.
The subject on which she discoursed most willingly was Mlle.

Antoinette Moriaz; when she was started under this heading she became eloquent.
At the end of half an hour Count Abel was thoroughly _au fait_ on the character and position of Mlle.Moriaz.He knew that she had a heart of gold, a mind free from all narrow prejudices, a generous soul, and a love for all that was chivalrous and heroic; he knew that two days of every week were devoted by her to visiting the poor, and that she looked upon these as natural creditors to whom it was her duty to make restitution.

He knew also that Mlle.

Moriaz could all the better satisfy her charitable inclinations, as her mother had left her an income of one hundred thousand livres.