M.le Blond assured me he had given it me back.

I knew him to be too honest a man to have the least doubt of the matter; but it was impossible for me to recollect what I had done with it.

As Zanetto had acknowledged the debt, I desired M.le Blond to endeavor to obtain from him the three sequins on giving him a receipt for the amount, or to prevail upon him to renew the note by way of duplicate.

Zanetto, knowing the note to be lost, would not agree to either.

I offered Rousselot the three sequins from my own purse, as a discharge of the debt.