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How indeed could a man who had known the blessing of a sober, God-fearing wife endure a drunkard and a child-beater? 'No wonder he killed himself! The gossips pointed out that the saying implied flight rather than suicide. 'You are right! Natalya admitted illogically. 'Just what a coward and blackguard like that would do leave the children at the mercy of the woman he couldn't face himself.
But by the evening the whole neighborhood was saying that the German was a brute and a child-beater. Christophe made fresh advances to the music-vendors: but in vain. He found the French lacking in cordiality: and the whirl and confusion of their perpetual agitation crushed him. They seemed to him to live in a state of anarchy, directed by a cunning and despotic bureaucracy.
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