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"So much for the future; but you don't seem to think about the present. What about this inventory?" "Ah, yes! to be sure. I had forgotten all about it. It isn't very satisfactory, is it?" He said that because of the somewhat disturbed and embarrassed expression on Georges's face. "Why, yes, on the contrary, it is very satisfactory indeed," was the reply.
They would go together to the gate to meet the travellers, and Georges's first glance was always for Mademoiselle Chebe, who remained a little behind her friend, but with the poses and airs that go halfway to meet the eyes. That manoeuvring between them lasted some time. They did not mention love, but all the words, all the smiles they exchanged were full of silent avowals.
Receipts and expenditures balanced each other. The general expense account had eaten up everything, and, furthermore, Fromont Jeune was indebted to the firm in a large sum. You should have seen old Planus's air of consternation when, on the 31st of December, he went up to Georges's office to make report of his labors. Georges took a very cheerful view of the matter.
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