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"Fortune has been kind to you, then? Your tilbury, your groom, your clothes, are not then hired? Good, sowith avarice

"Oh, you knew that well enough before speaking toa handkerchief like yours on s on my back, and worn-out shoes onas well-dressed as any one, knowing, as I do, the goodness of your heart If you have two coats you will give me one of them I used to divide ry"

"True," said Andrea

"What an appetite you used to have! Is it as good now?"

"Oh, yes," replied Andrea, laughing

"How did you co with that prince whose house you have just left?"

"He is not a prince; simply a count"

"A count, and a rich one too, eh?"

"Yes; but you had better not have anything to say to hientlen upon your count, and you shall have hi with the disagreeable expression he had before assumed, "you must pay for it--you understand?"

"Well, what do you want?"

"I think that with a hundred francs a month"-"Well?"