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"DEAR BOBTAIL, I need not tell you how very jolly it was to get your letter and to hear good news of you. My reason for not writing was that I intended to make my position before giving of my news to anybody. I was just funky and blue about it at first, but fortunately I was twigged almost immediately, and, barring my blessed idleness, am getting on splendaciously just now.
"Of the five hundred thousand francs that formed my daughter's marriage portion, two hundred thousand have vanished God knows how! in paying the young gentleman's debts, in furnishing his house splendaciously a house costing five hundred thousand francs, and bringing in scarcely fifteen thousand, since he occupies the larger part of it, while he owes two hundred and sixty thousand francs of the purchase-money.
"Of the five hundred thousand francs that formed my daughter's marriage portion, two hundred thousand have vanished God knows how! in paying the young gentleman's debts, in furnishing his house splendaciously a house costing five hundred thousand francs, and bringing in scarcely fifteen thousand, since he occupies the larger part of it, while he owes two hundred and sixty thousand francs of the purchase-money.
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