This sum I now demand." "Ah! Dieu! three thousand marks!" Madame Bonaventure screamed.

"What robbery is this!--what barbarity! 'T is ruin--utter ruin! I may as well close my house altogether, and return to my own fair country.

As I am an honest woman, Sir Giles, I cannot pay it.

So it is quite useless on your part to make any such demand." "You profess inability to pay, Madame," Sir Giles rejoined.

"I cannot believe you; having some knowledge of your means.