“Diable! then my 1,600,000 francs are gone, after all.”
“What! it would have cost that?”
“Indeed it would.”
“Reassure yourself; what I ask is much cheaper.”
“What do you wish for?”
“To go to Paris once more.”
“Oh! that is easy enough, and not dear.”
“But wait——”
“Diable!”
“To the Place Vendôme, to see M. Mesmer.”