hundred
thousand,
which you
wish to
make us
pay.
Besides
that, the
surveyor’s
valuation
–” One of
the others
interrupted
him “That
is quite
enough,
monsieur;
the law
courts
will
decide
between
us, and we
have
nothing
further to
do than to
take our
leave.”
And they
went out
after
mutual
ceremonious
bows. Oh!
if she
could only
have gone
away with
them, how
gladly she
would have
done it;
she would
have run
away and
given up
everything.
But it was
too late,