Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins

"Luxury–Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins" is a novel by the author Eugene Sue. Monsieur Pascal had spent a part of his life in a subordinate and precarious position, enduring the most ignominious treatment with a patience full of bitterness and hatred. Born of a peddler who had amassed a fortune by means of privation and illicit trade, he had commenced his business career as a day-laborer in the house of a provincial usurer, to whom Pascal's father had entrusted the care of his money. Thereafter as a successful banker, he delighted at making as much money from people as he could. But now there is a tantalizing business proposition from a prince, and he desires to milk it to its uttermost to the detriment of the prince's interests…