Who can tell what has become of her?
She was beautiful and poor.

Well, I was quite an old man when my father died, the wretch, the--" "M.

Tabaret!" interrupted the magistrate, "for shame, M.Tabaret!" "But I have already told you, I have forgiven him, sir.

However, you will soon understand my anger.

On the day of his death, looking in his secretary, I found a memorandum of an income of twenty thousand francs!" "How so! was he rich ?" "Yes, very rich; for that was not all: he owned near Orleans a property leased for six thousand francs a year.