seven francs on exchange, but a hundred francs to collectors. These

had formerly belonged to old Monsieur de la Bertelliere. Item, three

gold /quadruples/, Spanish, of Philip V., struck in 1729, given to her

one by one by Madame Gentillet, who never failed to say, using the

same words, when she made the gift, "This dear little canary, this

little yellow-boy, is worth ninety-eight francs! Keep it, my pretty

one, it will be the flower of your treasure." Item (that which her

father valued most of all, the gold of these coins being twenty-three