I owe and I will pay what I can; and what I can't pay now I will try to pay in the future, by the cent, by the dollar, till all is paid to the last copper.

It is the way with the Barbilles.

They have paid their way and their debts in honour, and it is in the bond with all the Barbilles of the past that I do as they do.

If I can't do it, then that I have tried to do it will be endorsed on the foot of the bill." No one could move him, not even Judge Carcasson, who from his armchair in Montreal wrote a feeble-handed letter begging him to believe that it was "well within his rights as a gentleman"-- this he put in at the request of M.Mornay--to take advantage of the privileges of the Bankruptcy Court.

Even then Jean Jacques had only a few moments' hesitation.