trusted

“Possibly my father-in-law trusted to its general notoriety.”

He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.

He spoke Italian like a Tuscan, and Spanish like a Castilian; he would have been free, and happy with Mercédès and his father, whereas he was now confined in the Château d’If, that impregnable fortress, ignorant of the future destiny of his father and Mercédès; and all this because he had trusted to Villefort’s promise.

He was a young but trusted member of the detective force, who had distinguished himself in several cases which had been intrusted to him.