Your father's orders on this point are decided; but the sooner we settle the affair the better." "That is too bad; the governor is as sly as a fox; but he must have his own way, I suppose, so come on.

Only just wait till I slip on a coat more suitable to my position than this lounging suit." He rushed away, and was back again in ten minutes as neat as a new pin, and full of gayety and good spirits.
"We can walk," said he, putting his arm through Andre's.

"We have to go to the Rue St.Anne." Verminet had his office in this street--the office of the Mutual Loan Society, of which he was the managing director.

The house, in spite of its grandiloquent title, was of excessively shabby exterior.

The Mutual Loan Society was frequented by those who, having lost their credit, wished to obtain a fresh amount, and who, having no money, wanted to borrow some.
Verminet's plan of financial operations was perfectly simple.