while some of the elders in town saw this permissiveness , on the part of mon seigneur-q , as indicative of the lax ways of his barbarous race , the man himself sensed that there was very little he could doperhaps due to the relative stupidity of his lineage to deter the budding adult from becoming a social parasite , and thus cared very little for the approximations made by others of his apparent indifference to the fate of this callow and undisciplined orphan .