Put the remainder of the capital in Madame Thuillier's name, on the Grand Livre, and she can do what she likes with it.

We shall all live together as one family, and I'll undertake to make my own fortune, now that I am free from anxiety about the future." "That suits me," said Thuillier; "that's the talk of an honest man." "Let me kiss you on the forehead, my son," said the old maid; "but, inasmuch as Celeste cannot be allowed to go without a 'dot,' we shall give her sixty thousand francs." "For her dress," said la Peyrade.
"We are all three persons of honor," cried Thuillier.

"It is now settled, isn't it?
You are to manage the purchase of the house; we are to write together, you and I, my political work; and you'll bestir yourself to get me the decoration ?" "You will have that as soon as you are made a municipal councillor on the 1st of May.

Only, my good friend, I must beg you, and you, too, dear aunt, to keep the most profound secrecy about me in this affair; and do not listen to the calumnies which all the men I am about to trick will spread about me.

I shall become, you'll see, a vagabond, a swindler, a dangerous man, a Jesuit, an ambitious fortune-hunter.