But"-- "I understand, madame: like me you look to 'the solid.' Thus then it is; I have money." "Ah! all the better for you." "I have a good deal of money.

But it is dispersed in a great many small but profitable investments: to call it in suddenly would entail some loss.

Nevertheless, if you and my young lady there have ever so little of that friendly feeling towards me of which I have so much towards you, all my investments shall be called in, and two-thirds of your creditors shall be paid off at once.

A single client of mine, no less a man than the Commandant Raynal, will, I am sure, advance me the remaining third at an hour's notice; and so Beaurepaire chateau, park, estate, and grounds, down to the old oak-tree, shall be saved; and no power shall alienate them from you, mademoiselle, and from the heirs of your body." The baroness clasped her hands in ecstasy.
"But what are we to do for this ?" inquired Josephine calmly, "for it seems to me that it can only be effected by a sacrifice on your part." "I thank you, mademoiselle, for your penetration in seeing that I must make sacrifices.

I would never have told you, but you have seen it; and I do not regret that you have seen it.