I will tell you what I will do.

Give me the print, and I will do my best for you.

Would ten thousand francs help you out of your difficulties ?" "I do not remember saying that I was in difficulties," objected the Reverend Septimus, with heightened colour.
"Don't you?
Memory IS bad, is it not?
Would ten thousand francs paint the rectory, then ?" "It would ease my mind and sweeten my sleep at night to have half that sum, my friend.

With two hundred pounds I could face the world aequo animo." "I will see what I can do.

This is the print, is it?
I don't know much about such things myself, but I should put the price down at ten thousand francs." "But the man in the Quai Voltaire ?" "Precisely.