If gratitude were banished from the universe, it would find a last abiding place in the heart of Fougas!" Three days before the marriage, M.Bonnivet informed the family that the colonel had come into his office to ask for a conference about the contract.

He had scarcely cast his eyes on the sheet of stamped paper, when Rrrrip! it was in pieces in the fireplace.
"Mister Note-scratcher," he said, "do me the honor of beginning your _chef-d'oeuvre_ over again.

The granddaughter of Fougas does not marry with an annuity of eight thousand francs.

Nature and Friendship give her a million.

Here it is!" Thereupon he took from his pocket a bank check for a million, paced the study proudly, making his boots creak, and threw a thousand-franc note on a clerk's desk, crying in his clearest tones: "Children of the Law! Here's something to drink the health of the Emperor and the Grand Army with!" The Renault family strongly remonstrated against this liberality.
Clementine, on being told of it by her intended, had a long discussion, in the presence of Mlle.