I express myself badly, or perhaps, as monsieur is a foreigner, which I perceive by his accent----" In fact, the unknown spoke with that impetuosity which is the principal character of English accentuation, even among men who speak the French language with the neatest purity.
"As monsieur is a foreigner, I say, it is perhaps he who does not catch my exact meaning.

I wish for monsieur to give up one or two of the apartments he occupies, which would diminish his expenses and ease my conscience.

Indeed, it is hard to increase unreasonably the price of the chambers, when one has had the honor to let them at a reasonable price." "How much does the hire amount to since yesterday ?" "Monsieur, to one louis, with refreshments and the charge for the horse." "Very well, and that of to-day ?" "Ah! there is the difficulty.

This is the day of the king's arrival; if the court comes to sleep here, the charge of the day is reckoned.

From that it results that three chambers, at two louis each, makes six louis.
Two louis, monsieur, are not much; but six louis make a great deal." The unknown, from red, as we have seen him, became very pale.
He drew from his pocket, with heroic bravery, a purse embroidered with a coat-of-arms, which he carefully concealed in the hollow of his hand.
This purse was of a thinness, a flabbiness, a hollowness, which did not escape the eye of Cropole.
The unknown emptied the purse into his hand.