Besides, he was a bad manager, with a rough kindness towards his workmen, and since his wife's death he allowed himself to be pillaged, and also gave the rein to his daughters, the elder of whom talked of going on the stage, while the younger had already had three landscapes refused at the Salon, both of them joyous amid the downfall, and exhibiting in poverty their capacity for good household management.
Du reste, mauvais administrateur, d'une bonté brusque avec ses ouvriers, il se laissait piller depuis la mort de sa femme, lâchant aussi la bride a ses filles, dont l'aînée parlait d'entrer au théâtre et dont la cadette s'était déja fait refuser trois paysages au Salon, toutes deux rieuses dans la débâcle, et chez lesquelles la misere menaçante révélait de tres fines ménageres.