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He was even trying to cut THAT down, to tighten the band, interfering in the running of his house, so that Dona Luisa could not make presents to her son.

In vain he had appealed to the various usurers of Paris, telling them of his property beyond the ocean.

These gentlemen had the youth of their own country in the hollow of their hand and were not obliged to risk their capital in other lands.