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man, and a good fellow, didn't wait for
me to offer him my daughter; not he; he
came, I liked him, and the thing was
done. To-day week we sign the contract.
You know, my dear boy, that the business
side of the affair is for you to attend to.
Let me put these ladies in the carriage,
and we'll walk to the square and have a
talk. But why the devil don't you put on
your hat? I didn't notice you were holding it in your hand. Ten chances to one
you've caught cold! "
The old man and the young one sauntered along side by side, to the Boulevard,
one talking and the other listening. And
M. l'Ambert went back home to prepare
the marriage contract of Mile. Charlotte
Auguste de Villemaurin. But he had
caught a horrible cold, there was no doubt
of that.
The instrument was sketched out by the
head clerk, revised by the business men of