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Updated: May 10, 2025
There was there an old newspaper-vender, who had placed in M. Favoral's hands all she had in the world, the savings of her entire life, five hundred francs. Clinging desperately to Maxence's garments, she begged him to give them back to her, swearing, that, if he did not, there was nothing left for her to do, except to throw herself in the river.
"And, notwithstanding the enormity of that sum, he was reduced, during the latter months, to the most miserable expedients, going from door to door in the neighborhood, soliciting deposits, until he actually basely swindled a poor newspaper-vender out of five hundred francs." "Why, this is madness! And how did you find out?" "Last night they came to arrest him.
His recent operations reveal a frightful distress. Had he had a few thousand francs at his command, would he have extorted five hundred francs from a poor old woman, a newspaper-vender? What did he want with the money? Try his luck once more, no doubt."
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