I would communicate with Chatellerault to inform him that I accounted my wager lost.

I would send him my note of hand, making over to him my Picardy estates, and I would request him to pay off and disband my servants both in Paris and at Bardelys.
As for myself, I did not know, and, as I have hinted, I cared but little, in what places my future life might lie.

I had still a little property by Beaugency, but scant inclination to withdraw to it.

To Paris I would not return; that much I was determined upon; but upon no more.
I had thoughts of going to Spain.

Yet that course seemed no less futile than any other of which I could bethink me.