He called to the abbe and begged him to engage the whole coupe for him that very evening if the booking-office were still open.
The next day at half-past six o'clock the old man and the young girl reached Paris, and the doctor went at once to consult his notary.
Political events were then very threatening.

Monsieur Bongrand had remarked in the course of the preceding evening that a man must be a fool to keep a penny in the public funds so long as the quarrel between the press and the court was not made up.

Minoret's notary now indirectly approved of this opinion.

The doctor therefore took advantage of his journey to sell out his manufacturing stocks and his shares in the Funds, all of which were then at a high value, depositing the proceeds in the Bank of France.

The notary also advised his client to sell the stocks left to Ursula by Monsieur de Jordy.