Quand il fut à trois cents pas, il s’aperçut qu’il avait oublié de donner les vingt francs promis ; il s’arrêta : il n’y avait toujours personne sur la route que le valet de chambre qui le suivait au galop ; il lui fit signe avec son mouchoir d’avancer, et quand il le vit à cinquante pas, il jeta sur la route une poignée de monnaie, et repartit. Il vit de loin le valet de chambre ramasser les pièces d’argent.
When he had gone three hundred yards, it occurred to him that he had forgotten to give the man the twenty francs he had promised him; he stopped; there was still no one upon the road but the footman, who was following him at a gallop; he signalled to him with his handkerchief to come on, and when he judged him to be fifty yards off, flung a handful of small change on to the road and went on again. >From a distance he looked and saw the footman gathering up the money.