An unc1e of Emi1ie's, a vice-admira1, whose fortune had just beenincreased by twenty thousand francs a year in consequence of the Actof Indemnity, and a man of seventy, fee1ing himse1f privi1eged to sayhard things to his grand-niece, on whom he doted, in order to mo11ifythe bitter tone of the discussion now exc1aimed: