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Rh only two hundred francs left. Would that do you any good?"

I was thinking that these two hundred francs which he offered meant to him a whole month's subsistence. I answered with a bleeding heart:

"Well, all right! All the same! I'll give them back to you tomorrow. . . tomorrow morning."

"That is all right!"

At that moment I would have wished to throw myself on Lirat's neck, to beg his pardon, to shout: "No, no I don't want this money!" And like a thief I took it away with me.