Other People's Money

form an era inher life, Mme. Favoral woke up, her hus

f the champagne; and theclouds of the w

have thought that Mme. Favoral alone,by dint of hard begging, had persuaded him, into that expense whichhe now seemed to regret so much. She quietly called his attentionto the fact, reminding him

at the project is?"

esentiments. Youdislike my friends; and I saw very well how you treated

reupon, having dressed himself with much care, he started off,saying that he was expected at bre

ant. But Mme. Favoral was too proud to be shrewd; andbesides, the springs of her will had been broken by the successiveoppression of an odious

on; and nearly aweek elapsed, during which the

, that she learned that the Baron de Thaller had just foundeda new stoc

he same time, a patriotic undertaking and aninstitution of credit of the first class; that it supplied a greatpublic want; that it would be of

ssured by the reading

rs. Nearly all were titled, and decorated with many foreignorders; and

thought, yielding unconsciously t

ituation I wanted. I am head cashier of the companyof which M. de Thaller is manager."That

have been well treated; and he further confirmed her inthat opinion by granting h

or to oursocial position, whatever it may cost."For the fi

ngaged a servant. He expressed the wish ofenlarging their circle of acquaintances, and

y, the old man Desorm

he was nevermore to depart, and the chronometric regularityof which

or himbut a mere hotel, where he slept, and took his evening meal. Henever thought of questioning his wife as to the use of her

have made a strange use ofthat insulting

lely to follow one of thoseinspirations w

elatively large, butso nicely calculated, that sh

h had made her ownlife wretched. They were too young yet to suffer from the paternalparsimony; but they would g

is distressing thought,she remembered a fri

lledto see the worthy woman, and, without even needing to confess thewhole truth to her, she obtained sundry pieces of work, i

t a minute, concealing her w

eak out, and swear that he spent money enough to enable his wife

anc-piece she had earned, a beautifulgold-piece, which belonged to her without contest,

ell, despite the drafts she made upon it, sometimes to buy a toyfor M

dren, the hours flew light and rapidas so many seconds. If all the hopes of the young girl and of thewoman had withered before they had blossomed, the m

never spoke to her of the MutualCredit Society; but now and then he allowed some words or excla

hree more operations like the one we have just successfullywound up, and we can shut up shop!"From all this, what c

e beginning of riches itself. He was admired for keepinghis house with such ri

to squander what he has,

o their hearts' contents, the one of the shop, theother of his office, they never failed to add,"You laugh at us, because you are enga

him, and foll

o persuade herself, that, in this respectat least, her husband was a remarkable man. S

they hadenough to live on, she expected him, some fine mor