Other People's Money

trials were about to return more poignant than ever,occasioned, this tim

, intelligent,studious at times, but thoughtless in th

where he had been sent

went by that he did not signal

f whom the teachers themselves, whilst complaining, said,"Bash! What matters it, since the heart is sound and the mind sane?"But M. Favoral took ev

able conduct," he fellinto the most violent pa

aroff; and cabin-boys are always in demand there."If, at least, he had confined himself to these admonitions, which,by their very exaggeration, failed in their object! But he favoredmechanical appliances as a necessary means of sufficiently impressingre

be beaten herself would have seemed to her lessatrocious, less humiliating. Hitherto she had found it impossibleto love a husband such as hers: he

by the most deliriouscaresses, to make him forget the paternal brutalities. With him shesobbed. Like him, she would shake her clinched fists in the vacantspace; exclaiming, "Coward

en the revolting brutalities of his father, andthe dangerous caresses of his

now found a use for

put a few sous in his son's pocket, the too weak motherwould have suggest

r the idea of her son having his pride wounded, and being unableto indu

tell him on holidays, slippin

ther to know any thing about it; forgetting that she wasthus training Maxence

such eager zeal, thatthe worthy shop-keeper of the Rue St. Denis asked her if she did notemploy working girls. In t

graceful. She robbed the household, cheatingon her own marketing. She went so far as to confide to her servant,and to make of the girl the accomplice of

d by a few centimes the price of each object,rejoicing when she had thus scraped a dozen fran

rew the money she lavished upon his schoolboy fancies. Sherecommended

der, he learn

seems to betray want, and the acrimonious discussionswhich arose upon the inconsiderate use of a twenty-franc-piece. Hesaw his mother realize mira

ch money asthose of his comrades whose parents had the

questioned

r, accustomed as he was to hear every one talk of poverty;and, as he fixed upon her his great astonished eyes,"Yes," she resumed, with an imprudence which fatally was to bear itsfruits, "w

th that patient shrewdness of youn

neighborhood, and everamong his friends, th

ht, have benefitted largely by the circumstance; and theprofits must have swell

eople did not failto add ironically, that he need

houlder,"If you ever need money for your frolics, young man, try and earnit; for I'll be hanged if it's the ol

d the certainty thatthe money he spent was the

exposed me to the bitter regretswhich I feel at this moment?"By this sole word the poor woman foun

you not see, that the labor which can promote her son's pleasure

ll no longer scatter tothe winds, as I ha

esolutions are not very stanch. The impressions he hadfelt wore off. He

own satisfaction that to deprive himself of apleasure was to deprive her. He asked f

s time about

ral, "for him to select a career,an