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'Four thousand francs of live coin! there are moments in one's life when one would sign bills for eight thousand to get them, as the Count said to me. "Two days later the Count must see the furniture himself, and took the four thousand francs upon him. The sale had been arranged; thanks to little Croizeau's diligence, he pushed matters on; he had 'come round' the widow, as he expressed it.
The establishment, you see, nominally belonged to Mlle. Chocardelle. Maxime burst out laughing at the idea of little Croizeau's finding him a buyer. The firm of Maxime and Chocardelle was losing two thousand francs, it is true, but what was the loss compared with four glorious thousand-franc notes in hand?
"That is Maxime all over!" cried La Palferine. "More especially as it was little Croizeau's money," added Cardot the profound. "Maxime scored a triumph," continued Desroches, "for Hortense exclaimed, 'Oh, if I had only known that it was you!" "A pretty 'confusion' indeed!" put in Malaga. "You have lost, milord," she added turning to the notary.
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