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"What you say is absurd, and I cannot see why M Debray's name is mixed up in this affair"

"Because if you do not possess the 175,000 francs I reclaim, you must have lent them to your friends, and M Debray is one of your friends"

"For shaestures, no screaethe whole of the 500,000 livres you have handed over to hi that he has found what the most skilful players have never discovered--that is, a roulette where he ithout playing, and is no loser when he loses" The baroness becaed "Wretch!" she cried, "will you dare to tell me you did not knohat you now reproach me with?"

"I do not say that I did know it, and I do not say that I did not know it Ithe last four years that we have ceased to be husband and wife, and see whether it has not always been consistent Some time after our rupture, you wished to study music, under the celebrated baritone who made such a successful appearance at the Theatre Italien; at the sa of the danseuse who acquired such a reputation in London This cost , for we must have peace in the house; and 100,000 francs for a lady and gentle are not too , and you take a fancy to study diplonifies nothing toas you pay for your lessons out of your own cashbox But to-day I find you are drawing on mine, and that your apprenticeship may cost me 700,000 francs per month Stop there, ive his lessons gratis, and I will tolerate hiain in my house;--do you understand, , "you are worse than despicable"

"But," continued Danglars, "I find you did not even pause there"-"Insults!"

"You are right; let us leave these facts alone, and reason coolly I have never interfered in your affairs excepting for your good; treatto do with my cash-box Be it so Do as you like with your own, but do not fill or empty mine Besides, how do I know that this was not a political trick, that theme in the opposition, and jealous of the popular sympathy I excite, has not concerted with M Debray to ruin me?"