The Count of Monte Cristo

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don't know how long, to the amount of 800,000 or 900,000 francs during
the year. Never a mistake or delay--a fellow who paid like a prince.
Well, I was a million in advance with him, and now my fine Jacopo
Manfredi suspends payment!"

"Really?"

"It is an unheard-of fatality. I draw upon him for 600,000. francs, my
bills are returned unpaid, and, more than that, I hold bills of
exchange signed by him to the value of 400,000. francs, payable at his
correspondent's in Paris at the end of this month. To-day is the 30th.
I present them; but my correspondent has disappeared. This, with my
Spanish affairs, made a pretty end to the month."

"Then you really lost by that affair in Spain?"

"Yes; only 700,000 francs out of my cash-box--nothing more!"