We shall be married in a few days; the contract is already drawn, and we shall sign it to-morrow.

You see, therefore, that my house in the rue du Cygne is useless to me.

I have been privately looking for a purchaser for some time; and the Abbe de Sponde, who knew that fact, has naturally taken Monsieur de Troisville to see the house." This falsehood bore such an appearance of truth that the chevalier was taken in by it.

That "my dear chevalier" was like the revenge taken by Peter the Great on Charles XII.

at Pultawa for all his past defeats.