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For a long time Julio remained, with a smile of happiness upon his lips,

in mute ad, he

ranged the crowns in a line and counted them; then he separated them into

piles of twenty pieces each; then he tossed them from hand to hand, until,

wearied of this aly At last he

exclaimed in a joyous outbreak: "Two hundred crowns! What will I do with them? Hoill I spend them?

Shall I drink Mals pleasure to

the heart? But at that rate I shall soon see the end of my money Shall I

play for florins and crowns? That would be an excellenta hundred tie! how fearful and avaricious money makes me! I do not even care to

play; no, I will not do it I will dress like a nobleman: in satin,

velvet, and silk; I will drink and eat of the most exquisite dishes; I

will Jive in luxury and abundance, as though the world were a terrestrial

paradise Ah, what a glorious life!

"But what a cowardly wretch I am! My only anxiety is to kno to spend

or rather squander this treasure, and at this mo out her hand toan alms! My

poor rateful

son, would he not have deserved it a hundred times? I am afraid of myself!

With ten croith the twentieth part of what I aht be saved froive twenty crowns to my master to send to her? Suppose I return

to the factory to execute this good thought? Ied; besides, I have no confidence in him I will inquire,