I heard from him this morning." "Indeed, sir ?" "Yes--here is his letter.

It encloses a remittance of seventy-five pounds; fifty of which are for you.

The remaining twenty-five being reserved for the defrayal of your expenses at the Ecole de Medecine and the Ecole Pratique." I was delighted.
"Both are made payable through my banker," continued Dr.Cheron, "and I am to take charge of your share till you require it; which cannot be just yet, as I understand from this letter that your father supplied you with the sum of one hundred and five pounds on leaving England." My delight went down to zero.
"Does my father say that I am not to have it now, sir ?" I asked, hesitatingly.
"He says, as I have already told you, that it is to be yours when you require it." "And if I require it very shortly, sir--in fact, if I require it now ?" "You ought not to require it now," replied the Doctor, with a cold, scrutinizing stare.

"You ought not to have spent one hundred and five pounds in five months." I looked down in silence.

I had more than spent it long since; and I had to thank Madame de Marignan for the facility with which it had flown.