Volume III Part 33 (2/2)
”It is an iht with serious results, and ht that at your age you would be capable of such a knavish trick I know you did it out of stupidity, but after a certain limit stupidity becomes criminal; and I cannot see how I a you in the eyes of Mada hi,
”I had rather the sha sent back toto Madame d'Urfe that I had iive upwith him, unless, indeed, I sent him to some place far removed from Paris under his proper name, I told him to take comfort as I would try and do the best I could for both of us
”And now tell s does Viar's daughter entertain for you?”
”I think, papa, that this is a case in which the reserve commended by yourself, as well as by mother, would be appropriate”
”Yes, that sort of answer tellsfor your age And you may as well observe that when you are called upon for a confession, reserve is out of place, and it's a confession I require frohter is very fond of me, and she shews her love in all sorts of ways”
”And do you love her?”
”Oh, yes!”
”Is she ?”
”She is with o to bed?”
”Yes, she helpselse?”
”I do not care to tell you”
I was astonished at the h to guess that the boy and girl were very good friends indeed, I contentedhim to take care of his health, and with this I left hihts were occupied with a business speculation which all my calculations assured me would be extremely profitable
The plan was to produce on silks, by ns which are produced at Lyons by the tedious process of weaving, and thus to give customers excellent value at e of che a success I obtained the assistance of a e, intending to er
I told ed e, and all the privileges I could wish for
That decided e house near the Temple for a thousand crowns per annum The house contained a spacious hall, in which I meant to put my workmen; another hall which was to be the shop; numerous rooms for my workpeople to live in; and a nice room for myself in case I cared to live on the premises
I made the scheave five totwenty-five to distribute to those ere inclined to join the co surety, became the storekeeper, and caed four servants, a waiting-ive another share to an accountant, who furnished me with two clerks, who also took up their abode in the house The carpenters, blacksht, and in less than three weeks the place was ready I told the irls to paint, ere to be paid every Saturday I stocked the warehouse with three hundred pieces of sarcenet and cans, and I paid for everything in ready money
I had er that I should have to spend three hundred thousand francs, and that would not break me If the worst happened I could fall back on ood income, but I hoped I should not be compelled to do so, as I wanted to have an income of two hundred thousand francs a year
All the while I did not conceal froht beat my beautiful materials these fears were dispelled, especially as I heard everybody saying that I sold them much too cheap