Chapter

1 2|    that establishment kept its~books by double entry, the Sieur
2 3|       director,~called profane books. This discipline had borne
3 3|        evenings~in keeping the books of their associates. Many
4 4|      office he read the newest books, extracted their wit, and
5 4|       of himself." He~compiled books of questions and answers
6 4|     designing, and~drawing for books, which twenty years later
7 4|        the morning he kept the books~of a large shop in the rue
8 4| trifling, and all his account-~books, wrapped in old shirts and
9 6|      reviewed one of~their own books.~ ~"'Madame la comtesse'--