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." "I have not a denier in my pockets," said the Chevalier, with a short laugh.
"Not at present, perhaps," replied Du Puys.

"But one does not lose forty thousand livres in a night, and that, I understand, is your revenue." "I lost them to-night," quietly.
"Forty thousand livres ?" gasped the soldier.

"You have lost a fortune, then ?" annoyed.
"Yes; and more than that, I have lost the source from which they came, these forty thousand livres.

I see that you are mystified.