His son Eugéne, in fact, received very small dividends; and as he had become a bourgeois and had been foolish enough to throw away the other forty thousand francs of the paternal inheritance in a company that came to grief, he lived meanly enough.
Son fils Eugene toucha en effet des dividendes fort minces; et, comme il s'était mis bourgeois et qu'il avait eu la sottise de manger les quarante autres mille francs de l'héritage paternel dans une association désastreuse, il vécut assez chichement.