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"No, and your confidence makes you honorable in my opinion; and your princely father, is he rich, very rich?"

"Yes, he is that; he does not himself know the amount of his fortune"

"Is it possible?"

"It is evident enough to me, who aht him fifty thousand francs in a portfolio about the size of your plate; yesterday his banker brought hiold" Caderousse was filled onder; the young ht he could hear the rushing of cascades of louis "And you go into that house?" cried he briskly

"When I like"

Caderousse was thoughtful for asome unfortunate idea in his mind Then suddenly,--"How I should like to see all that," cried he; "how beautiful it nificent," said Andrea

"And does he not live in the Champs-Elysees?"

"Yes, No 30"

"Ah," said Caderousse, "No 30"

"Yes, a fine house standing alone, between a court-yard and a garden,--you must know it"

"Possibly; but it is not the exterior I care for, it is the interior What beautiful furniture there must be in it!"

"Have you ever seen the Tuileries?"

"No"

"Well, it surpasses that"