And so my mouldy four hundred thousand francs have all gone, interest and capital alike--where ?" And here, with hand and mouth, he intimated in pantomime that it had all dissolved itself into thin air.
Master Jock continued to regard the juvenile _roue_ with a look that grew stonier and stonier, and involuntarily, unconsciously, a deep sigh escaped from his breast.
"Nevertheless, that was nothing," continued the young dandy, with a self-satisfied voice.

"So long as a man has a million he can easily spend two millions; 'tis a science readily learnt.

All at once ces fripons de creanciers, those villainous creditors of mine, took it into their heads to ask me for money, and when one began the others were not slow in following.

I cursed them; but that did not satisfy them, so they went to the courts about it, and I had to leave Paris.

C'est pour bruler la cervelle! It was enough to make me blow my brains out.