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He came out half an hour later with seven thousand francs in his pocket . Then he went to see Florentine , paid the five hundred francs which he owed to her , and proposed a supper at the Rocher de Cancale after the theatre . Returning to his game , along the rue de Sentier , he stopped at Giroudeau 's newspaper-office to notify him of the gala . By six o'clock Philippe had won twenty-five thousand francs , and stopped playing at the end of ten minutes as he had promised himself to do . That night , by ten o'clock , he had won seventy-five thousand francs . After the supper , which was magnificent , Philippe , by that time drunk and confident , went back to his play at midnight . In defiance of the rule he had imposed upon himself , he played for an hour and doubled his fortune .