About this time, she began to doubt the honesty of the government, and declared it was capable of keeping the three numbers in the urn, so as to excite the shareholders to put in enormous stakes.

After a rapid survey of all their resources, it seemed to the two women impossible to raise the thousand francs without selling out the little that remained in the Funds.

They talked of pawning their silver and part of the linen, and even the needless pieces of furniture.

Joseph, alarmed at these suggestions, went to see Gerard and told him their circumstances.

The great painter obtained an order from the household of the king for two copies of a portrait of Louis XVIII., at five hundred francs each.