Two omnibus-tickets! I was severely
punished for this prodigality. Seventy-four cents ran away from
me, making their escape through a hole in my pocket. How could I
dare to return home and confront your wrath? Two omnibus-tickets
alone would have brought a severe admonition on my head; but
seventy-four cents with them--! If I had not begun to disarm you
by telling you the Belleville drama, I should have been a doomed
man. Nevertheless, the next day, without thinking of these
terrible losses, we lent G---- money; he really seemed to look
upon us as Messrs. Murger and Co., his bankers. I wonder by what
insidious means this G---- contrived to captivate our confidence,
and the only solution I can discover is the inexperience of giddy
youth; for two days afterwards G---- was audacious enough to
reappear and to ask for another loan. Nothing new appears on the
pages of the book, except fifteen cents for wine: this must have
been one of your ideas: I do not mean to say that you were ever a
wine-bibber, but we were so accustomed to water, we drank so much
water without getting tired of it, that this item, 'wine,' seems
very extraordinary to me.
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