“Because on that outlay you have a profit.”
“As a matter of course; for I made all the agreements with the tradespeople, whom I shall not pay until after the sale,” said Boyer, taking a huge pinch of snuff; “so that at the end of this month—”
“The furniture is yours, as the horses and carriages are mine.”
“Precisely so. M. le Vicomte has gained by this, by living for the last few months as he likes to live, en grand seigneur,—and that in the very teeth of his creditors; for furniture, plate, horses, carriages, whichhad all been paid for ready money when he came of age, have now become the property of yourself and myself.”
“And so M. le Vicomte is really ruined?”
“In five years.”
“And M. le Vicomte inherited—”
“Only a miserable million (40,000l.), ready money,” said M. Boyer, with a
