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Rh and may blast the prospects of my child also, as it is caused by the caprice of an old man relapsed into second childhood."

"What do you say?" said the count; "nine hundred thousand francs!

it is indeed a sum which might be regretted even by a philosopher. And who is the cause of all this annoyance?"

"My father, of whom I have spoken to you."

"M. Noirtier! but I thought you had told me he had become entirely paralyzed, and that all his faculties were completely destroyed?"