Well, no, after all! Fifty louis on Lusignan; what do you say to that ?" Labordette looked at her with a singular expression.

She leaned forward and asked him questions in a low voice, for she was aware that Vandeuvres commissioned him to arrange matters with the bookmakers so as to be able to bet the more easily.

Supposing him to have got to know something, he might quite well tell it her.

But without entering into explanations Labordette persuaded her to trust to his sagacity.

He would put on her fifty louis for her as he might think best, and she would not repent of his arrangement.
"All the horses you like!" she cried gaily, letting him take his departure, "but no Nana; she's a jade!" There was a burst of uproarious laughter in the carriage.