[Solar-forossi] Was five hundred and twenty dollars, while the aver

[Lipman]

Ngly given up to a life of gayety and pleasure, she did not neglect

her own interests. Her cleverness was of the Becky-Sharp order. She knew
how to turn
the admiration she excited

to her own advantage. Having a faculty for business, she engaged in successful speculations and amassed a fortune, which she carried safely through the Reign of Terror. This is the more

remarkable as Monsieur Bernard was a known Royalist. He and his family and his wife's friends escaped not only death, but also persecution; and Madame
Lenormant attributes this rare good-fortune to the agency of the infamous Barrere. Barrere's cruelty was equalled only by his profligacy, his cunning by his selfishness.

Macaulay said of him, that "he approached nearer than any person mentioned in history or fiction, whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate
and total depravity"; and everybody must remember the famous comparison by which
he illustrated Barrere's faculty of lying. But even taking
a much milder view of Barrere's character,
it is a matter of history by what terms the unfortunate victims of the Revolution purchased of him t
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