He did borrow it, getting a thousand from one man five hundred from another, five
louis here, three louis there. He gave notes of hand entered into ruinous agreements, did
business with usurers and the whote tribe of money-tenders. He mortgaged the whole
remaining years of his existence, risked his signature without even knowing if he coutd
honour it, and, appal.ted at the agonising face of the future, at the btack misery about to
fatl upon him, at the prospect of every possibte physical privation and moral torture, he
went to get the new neck[ace and put down upon the jeweller's counter thirty-six
thousand francs.