Presently he rose, and closing the door of the safe he placed under the lamp the package of bills that he had counted.

The clerk then counted them, and placing them in his portfolio took his leave.
"Close the door when you go out," Caffie said, who was already seated in his arm-chair.
"Do not be afraid." When the clerk was gone Caffie apologized for the interruption.
"Let us continue our conversation, my dear sir.

I told you that there is only one way to relieve you permanently from embarrassment, and that way you will find is in a good marriage, that will place 'hic et nunc' a reasonable sum at your disposal." "But it would be folly for me to marry now, when I have no position to offer a wife." "And your future, of which you have just spoken with so much assurance, have you no faith in that ?" "An absolute faith--as firm to-day as when I first began the battle of life, only brighter.

However, as others have not the same reasons that I have to hope and believe what I hope and believe, it is quite natural that they should feel doubts of my future.

You felt it yourself instantly in not finding it a good guarantee for the small loan of three thousand francs." "A loan and marriage are not the same thing.