With your fortune, with your youth and person, you may obtain the hand of an heiress and double your income!" Gustave listened to the first words of this calculating essay with evident impatience; but he soon turned away his eyes and began to fold up the papers and put them in his portfolio.

As the notary finished, he answered, quickly,-- "Well, well, I suppose you have done your duty, and I thank you; but we have had enough of that.

Tell me who owns Grinselhof now ?" The man of business appeared considerably disconcerted by the contemptuous interruption of his visitor; yet he strove to conceal his mortification by a sorry smile, as he replied,-- "I see, sir, that you have taken a firm stand and will do as you please.
Grinselhof was bought in by the mortgagees, for the price offered was below its value." "Who lives there ?" "It is uninhabited.

No one goes to the country in winter." "Can it be bought from its present proprietor ?" "Certainly.

I am authorized to offer it to any one for the amount of the mortgages." "Then Grinselhof belongs to _me!_ Be kind enough to inform the owners of it at once!" "Very well, sir.