At length the time had come for us to part, and Blanche, the egregious Blanche, shed real tears as she took her leave of me. “ Tu étais bon enfant ” she said with a sob. “ Je te croyais bête et tu en avais l’air , but it suited you.” Then, having given me a final handshake, she exclaimed, “ Attends! ”; whereafter, running into her boudoir, she brought me thence two thousand-franc notes. I could scarcely believe my eyes! “They may come in handy for you,” she explained, “for, though you are a very learned tutor, you are a very stupid man. More than two thousand francs, however, I am not going to give you, for the reason that, if I did so, you would gamble them all away. Now goodbye. Nous serons toujours bons amis , and if you win again, do not fail to come to me, et tu seras heureux .”