If I have the sum this evening, I owe it to a chance upon which I could not have counted an hour ago; but by which I profited, at the risk of compromising myself." "Poor man!" said Juliette, with an ironical touch of pity in her voice.

"Do you dare to tell me you have had difficulty in obtaining ten thousand francs,--you ?" "Yes,--I!" The young woman looked at her lover, and burst into a fit of laughter.
"You are really superb when you act the poor young man!" said she.
"I am not acting." "So you say, my own.

But I see what you are aiming at.

This amiable confession is the preface.

To-morrow you will declare that your affairs are very much embarrassed, and the day after to-morrow.