"What would you have me do?" he said at last.

" You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.

Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one.

That is the only difference between them.

" He said this smiling in a way more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and unpleasant.