This house took his sixteen hundred thousand francs at six per cent per annum, on condition of three months' notice in case of the withdrawal of the money.
One fine day, Philippe went to see his mother, and invited her to be present at his marriage, which was witnessed by Giroudeau, Finot, Nathan, and Bixiou.

By the terms of the marriage contract, the widow Rouget, whose portion of her late husband's property amounted to a million of francs, secured to her future husband her whole fortune in case she died without children.

No invitations to the wedding were sent out, nor any "billets de faire part"; Philippe had his designs.

He lodged his wife in an _appartement_ in the rue Saint-Georges, which he bought ready-furnished from Lolotte.

Madame Bridau the younger thought it delightful, and her husband rarely set foot in it.