If it were still night, I would go and get 100 crowns from the king; but now I have no resource but in myself or in Gorenflot." This idea of drawing money from Gorenflot made him smile.

"It would be odd," thought he, "if Gorenflot should refuse 100 crowns to the friend through whom he was appointed prior to the Jacobins.

But this letter of the king's.

I must go and fetch it.

But these Joyeuses are in truth capable of burning my house down some night, to attract the lady to her window: and my 1,000 crowns! really, I think it would be better to hide them in the ground.