He signed, nevertheless, for he had boundless confidence in the practical ingenuity of Catharine.

The old lady begged Fougas to sit down at the end of the table, and dictated to him a receipt for two millions, in payment of all demands.

You may depend that she did not forgot a word of the legal formulas, and that she arranged the affair in due form according to the Prussian code.

The receipt, written throughout in the Colonel's hand, filled three large pages.
He signed the instrument with a flourish, and received in exchange the signature of Nicholas, which he knew well.
"Well," said he to the old gentleman, "you're certainly not such an Arab as they said you were at Berlin.

Shake hands, old scamp! I don't usually shake hands with any but honest people; but on an occasion like this, one can do a little something extra." "Do it double, Monsieur Fougas," said Frau Meiser, humbly.