On this he closed his eyes to reflect, wrote down a few figures, and declaring it would be very difficult for him, that the affair was shady, and that he was being bled, he wrote out four bills for two hundred and fifty francs each, to fall due month by month.
Alors, il ferma les yeux pour réfléchir, écrivit quelques chiffres, et, déclarant qu’il aurait grand mal, que la chose était scabreuse et qu’il se saignait, il dicta quatre billets de deux cent cinquante francs, chacun, espacés les uns des autres à un mois d’échéance.