This young man spoilt all her pleasure of giving.

In other days he might perhaps have been equally generous, but it was not among the same people, not her own particular poor, of that she was sure.

And he must have watched her and followed her very closely to know them all and to take them so regularly one after the other.
Now, go when she might with a little basket of provisions to the Chouteaux, there was always money on the table.

One day, when she went to _pere_ Mascart, who was constantly complaining that he had no tobacco, she found him very rich, with a shining new louis d'or on his table.

Strangest of all, once when visiting _mere_ Gabet, the latter gave her a hundred franc note to change, and with it she was enabled to buy some high-priced medicines, of which the poor woman had long been in need, but which she never hoped to obtain, for where could she find money to pay for them?
Angelique herself could not distribute much money, as she had none.