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"Your ruin? I accelerate your ruin? What do you mean? I do not understand you"

"So much the better, I have a ray of hope left; listen"

"I a so earnestly at her father that it was an effort for the latter to endure her unrelenting gaze

"M Cavalcanti," continued Danglars, "is about toto three enie with sovereign conteloves out one upon the other

"You think I shall deprive you of those three lars; "but do not fear it They are destined to produce at least ten I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days proood the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio We e, which is an advance, as you see, since we gain at least ten, fifteen, twenty, or a hundred livres' worth of iron in exchange for our money Well, within a week I am to deposit four millions for my share; the four millions, I pro my visit to you the day before yesterday, sir, which you appear to recollect so well," replied Eugenie, "I saw you arranging a deposit--is not that the term?--of five millions and a half; you even pointed it out to me in two drafts on the treasury, and you were astonished that so valuable a paper did not dazzle "

"Yes, but those five millions and a half are not reat confidence placed in ained me the confidence of charitable institutions, and the fiveto them; at any other tireat losses I have recently sustained are well known, and, as I told you, my credit is rather shaken That deposit may be at any moment withdrawn, and if I had eraceful bankruptcy I do not despise bankruptcies, believe me, but they must be those which enrich, not those which ruin Now, if you et the three et them, my credit will be restored, and my fortune, which for the last ulfs which have been opened in my path by an inconceivable fatality, will revive Do you understand me?"