"That is very good for a beginning.

And you ?" she turned to Monsieur Wachner.
He hesitated, and looked at his wife deprecatingly.
"L'Ami Fritz," said Madame Wachner, "_will_ play 'is system, Mesdames.
However, I am glad to say that to-day he soon gave it up in honour of our friend here.

What 'ave you made ?" she asked him.
"Only eight hundred francs," he said, his face clouding over.

"If you had given me more than that hundred francs, Sophie, I might have made five thousand in the time." "Bah!" she said.

"That does not matter.