He said he knew her, and would give her credit.

'You are a trump,' said she.

'I'll just trot off to my own crib and get the money.'" "Did she go home ?" "Not she; she went to a real swell house in a bang up part of Paris, the Rue de Varennes.

She knocked at the door, and in she went, while I lounged about outside." "Do you know who lives there ?" "Of course I do.

The grocer round the corner told me that it was inhabited by the Duke--what was his blessed name?
Oh, the Duke----" "Was it the Duke de Champdoce ?" "That is the right one, a chap they say as has his cellars chock full of gold and silver." "You are rather slow, my lad," said Tantaine, with his assumed air of indifference.