I then have left the side of the house at the back, store-rooms, and cellars, inundated every winter, two hundred livres; and the garden, which is very fine, well planted, well shaded under the walls and the portal of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais, thirteen hundred livres." "Thirteen hundred livres! why, that is royal!" "This is the whole history.

I strongly suspect some canon of the parish (these canons are all rich as Croesus)--I suspect some canon of having hired the garden to take his pleasure in.

The tenant has given the name of M.Godard.That is either a false name or a real name; if true, he is a canon; if false, he is some unknown; but of what consequence is it to me?
he always pays in advance.

I had also an idea just now, when I met you, of buying a house in the Place Baudoyer, the back premises of which join my garden, and would make a magnificent property.

Your dragoons interrupted my calculations.