AN AMBITION SATISFIED - The Old Wives' Tale

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All day till evening Sophia sat on a dirty chair, without food, while Gerald slept. She kept repeating to herself, in amazed resentment: "A hundred francs for this room! A hundred francs! And he hadn't the pluck to tell me!" She could not have expressed her contempt.

Long before sheer ennui forced her to look out of the window again, every sign of justice had been removed from the square. Nothing whatever remained in the heavy August sunshine save gathered heaps of filth where the horses had reared and caracoled.

CHAPTER IV

		"If some time you see jumping through the window a Swiss banker, you jump afterwards. For sure there is something to gain." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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