"My grandmother nursed up a trey, but she dressed herself properly." "Out of my ten sous I have to pay for a lodging--" "What's the matter with the lady you are nursing ?" "In the first place, she hasn't got any money; and then she has a disease that scares the doctors.

She owes me for sixty days' nursing; that's why I keep on nursing her.

The husband, who is a count,--she is really a countess,--will no doubt pay me when she is dead; and so I've lent her all I had.

And now I haven't anything; all I did have has gone to the pawn-brokers.

She owes me forty-seven francs and twelve sous, beside thirty francs for the nursing.