Did Monsieur Credit die on the seventeenth of November?
I ask, because I see on the 'credit' side of our account-book,
'Frock-coat, sixty cents.' These sixty cents came from the
pawnbroker's. How his clerks humiliated us! I could make a long
and terrible history of our dealings with the pawnbroker; I shall
make a short and simple story of it. When money failed us, you
pointed out to me an old cashmere shawl which we used as a
table-cover. I told you, 'They will give us nothing on that.' You
replied, 'Oh, yes, they will, if we add pantaloons and waistcoats
to it.' I added pantaloons and waistcoats to it, and you took the
bundle and started for the den in Place de la Croix Rouge. You
soon came back with the huge package, and you were sad enough as
you said, 'They are disagreeable _yonder_; try in the Rue de
Conde; the clerks, who are accustomed to deal with students, are
not so hard-hearted as they are in the Place de la Croix Rouge.'
I went to the Rue de Conde. The two pair of pantaloons, the famous
shawl, and the waistcoats were closely examined; even their
pockets were searched.
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