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"All right, I will provide that amount"

"You will borrow it?"

"Good heavens! Why, yes!"

"A fine thing that will be to do; you will fall out with your father,

cripple your resources, and one doesn't find thirty thousand francs from

one day to another Believe me, my dear Armand, I knoomen better than

you do; do not commit this folly; you will be sorry for it one day Be

reasonable I don't advise you to leave Marguerite, but live with her

as you did at the beginning Let her find the et out of this

difficulty The duke will come back in a little while The Comte de

N, if she would take hiive her four or five thousand francs a month He has two

hundred thousand a year It would be a position for her, while you

will certainly be obliged to leave her Don't wait till you are ruined,

especially as the Co would prevent your

still being Marguerite's lover She would cry a little at the beginning,

but she would come to accustom herself to it, and you would thank uerite is married, and

deceive the husband; that is all I have already told you all this