Sambucco of, say 200,000 more:--to obtain a fortune at least equal to hers within such a period as will give her time enough to grow up, without leaving her time enough to become an old maid." He had found the solution in the Ural mines.
During three long years, he had indirectly corresponded with the beloved of his heart.

All the letters which he wrote to his father or mother, passed into the hands of Mlle.

Sambucco, who did not keep them from Clementine.

Sometimes, indeed, they were read aloud in the family, and M.Renault was never obliged to omit a phrase, for Leon never wrote anything which a young girl should not hear.

The aunt and the niece had no other distractions; they lived retired in a little house at the end of a pretty garden, and received no one but old friends.