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Modeste Mignon

CHAPTER III
13/18

In an instant ruin like a vulture swooped down upon their happiness, just as the cold fell in 1812 upon the grand army in Russia.

One night sufficed Charles Mignon to decide upon his course, and he spent it in settling his accounts with Dumay.

All he owned, not excepting his furniture, would just suffice to pay his creditors.
"Havre shall never see me doing nothing," said the colonel to the lieutenant.

"Dumay, I take your sixty thousand francs at six per cent." "Three, my colonel." "At nothing, then," cried Mignon, peremptorily; "you shall have your share in the profits of what I now undertake.

The 'Modeste,' which is no longer mine, sails to-morrow, and I sail in her.


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