Maurice Leblanc

“ You can understand, my boy, that, when money is pouring in like water — as it will without a doubt — Victorien Beaugrand will throw up a profession which does not give him sufficient leisure for his private studies and that he will live with me, he and his wife. ”

“ I have added to my report a very exact definition of the technical processes which should be employed in the installation and exploitation of my discovery, as also of my special views upon the financial management of the amphitheatre, the advertising, the floating of the business and the manner in which it might subsequently be extended by building in the garden and where the Lodge now stands a second amphitheatre to face the other side of the wall. ”

“ I did not think of protesting, knowing that Noel Dorgeroux had been in the Yard the day before, in front of the screen:
“I am, uncle, I'm in love with Berangere, but she doesn't care for me.”
“Yes, she does, Victorien.”
I displayed some slight impatience:
“Uncle, I must ask you not to insist. Berangere is a mere child; she does not know what she wants; she is incapable of any serious feeling ”

“ CHAPTER VI. ANXIETIES “YOU seem very happy, uncle!” said I to Noel Dorgeroux, who walked briskly on the way to the station, whistling one gay tune after another.
“Yes,” he replied, “lam happy as a man is who has come to a decision.”
“You've come to a decision, uncle?”
“And a very serious one at that. It has cost me a sleepless night; but it's worth it.”
“May I ask...?”
“Certainly. In two words, it's this: Fm going to pull down the sheds in the Yard and build an amphitheatre there.” ”