'No; I have been dismissed from my post.'
'What! are you dismissed?'
'Yes—turned out by force. I was accused of selling the examination papers to the students.'
'It was not true, of course?'
'Of course not. But the plot to ruin me was well arranged. The Senate advised me to resign.'
'So you are on the pavement?'
'Yes; I am destitute.'
Then only Don Crescenzio noticed that Professor Colaneri's face was pallid and distorted. But this third disappointment enraged him.
'I don't know what to do to you; you must give me the seven hundred francs, at any rate.'
'Have you got five francs to lend me?'