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To say that if I had to choose between them and God, I could not be sure. To say that if I had to lose a hundred francs for the love of God, I could not say about that. But I love him well, for sure, I love him all the same." The priest said gravely "You must love Him more than all besides." And Sabot, meaning well, declared "I will do what I possibly can, m'sieu le cure."
As you may imagine, with such a recommendation, the mare was very difficult to sell; M. d'Aister told me that her owner was prepared to let her go for whatever was offered. I offered a thousand francs and M. Finguerlin handed Lisette over to me, although she had cost five thousand.
I am a doctor of law, I have kept my terms, and have powerful interest already. . . . Well, how are we getting on?" "Perhaps you would accept my savings," said La Cibot. "I have put them in a savings bank. I have not much, only three thousand francs, the fruits of twenty-five years of stinting and scraping.
The writer, who had not even noticed her till that moment, turned round suddenly; he looked at her from head to foot, with half-closed eyes, observantly, and then he took in the details, as a connoisseur. She was charming, suddenly animated by that flame which had hitherto been dormant in her. And then, a woman who gives fifteen hundred francs for a knick-knack is not to be met with every day.
Having neither relatives nor friends from whom he could procure a certain sum, his only resource was to make it at play; and in his desperate position, known to every one, nothing was more natural than this experiment. He had received two hundred francs, which would not save him from his creditors. He would risk them at roulette at Monaco. Whether he lost or won was of little consequence.
It will be easy to say there are no rooms. I'll do just as you please." "You're very obliging." "I'm willing enough to oblige, as I've always told you at a price." "Put a name to it; but don't forget you've had something on account. Last night I gave you five hundred francs." "Bah! I want a lot more than that, a thousand francs down and fifty francs a day so long as I serve you.
When Mariette reached home that night, she felt alarmed at what might happen to the youth in whom her brother took interest and she wrote a hasty note to Godeschal, telling him what had happened to Oscar and inclosing a bank bill for five hundred francs to repair his loss.
"What do you want with me?" he stammered. "The money that you have stolen, father," replied the girl in an inexorable tone of voice, "the twelve hundred thousand francs which you have here, then the proofs which are in your hands, and, finally your weapons." He was trembling from head to foot. "Take away my money!" he said. "Why, that would be compelling me to give myself up!
The latter replied, with extreme politeness, that the 100,000 francs received by comte Jean a few days before the king was taken ill, and the 50,000 paid to madame de Mirepoix recently, must be a convincing proof, in my eyes, of his friendly intentions towards me, but that he had no money at present in his possession, the first he received should be at my disposal.
Under the date of June 10, 1876, was an entry of which this is the English: "Holladay, Hiram W., and Elizabeth, his wife, of the city of New York, United States of America; from Céleste Alix, widow of Auguste Alix, her daughter Céleste, aged five months. All claim surrendered in consideration of the payment of 25,000 francs." Mr. Royce caught up the book and glanced at the back.
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