Here is a specimen of his sketches-thecharacter of a rich usurer-

The Contessa di Cellant was the only child of a rich usurer who lived at Casal Monferrato.

One day a rich usurer and a very poor old woman happened to be dying in the same town.

Never a rich usurer among them but trembled at his messages, nor a poor wretch but dreaded his dungeons.

Goldberg," M. Rochez continued after a moment's pause, "the lovely daughter of the rich usurer in the Rue des Médecins."

A rise in prices is not, however, the only process that will check the appearance of a new rich usurer class after the war.