Only you must try to get it done in your name; it will be so much secured anyhow." "A capital idea!" said Flore.
"And as there will be an income of fifty thousand francs from eight hundred and ninety thousand, we must make him borrow one hundred and forty thousand francs for two years, to be paid back in two instalments.
In two years, we shall get one hundred thousand francs _in_ Paris, and ninety thousand here, and risk nothing." "If it were not for you, my handsome Max, what would become of me now ?" she said.
"Oh! to-morrow night at Mere Cognette's, after I have seen the Parisians, I shall find a way to make the Hochons themselves get rid of them." "Ah! what a head you've got, my angel! You are a love of a man." The place Saint-Jean is at the centre of a long street called at the upper end the rue Grand Narette, and at the lower the rue Petite Narette.

The word "Narette" is used in Berry to express the same lay of the land as the Genoese word "salita" indicates,--that is to say, a steep street.

The Grand Narette rises rapidly from the place Saint-Jean to the port Vilatte.

The house of old Monsieur Hochon is exactly opposite that of Jean-Jacques Rouget.

From the windows of the room where Madame Hochon usually sat, it was easy to see what went on at the Rouget household, and vice versa, when the curtains were drawn back or the doors were left open.