#74312 - But in that eccentricity of his he was certainly less outstanding than the parliamentary judge with whom I had to cope shortly after my arrival at Fournier's establishment, and whom I had as a client for many years: his being a rather ticklish case, he would deal with no one but me. They went to bed, and Curval, plunged into the thick of fresh infamies, compensated himself for the tender pastorals he had been obliged to witness. And do you suppose, I said, that you have not, if only a little, to reproach yourself for the death of these people, which so resembles murder? Splendid, he murmured; must one, however, look at the matter so closely? But in society such a thing is called a horror, I protested.