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L’Abbe Constantin

CHAPTER V
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He knows how to spend, the Frenchman knows only how to save.
The Frenchman has only one real luxury--his revolutions.

Prudently and wisely he reserves himself for them, knowing well that they will cost France dear, but that, at the same time, they will furnish the opportunity for advantageous investments.

The Frenchman says to himself: "Let us hoard! let us hoard! let us hoard! Some of these mornings there will be a revolution, which will make the 5 per cents.

fall 50 or 60 francs.

I will buy then.


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