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`` No , no , '' the good man answered , looking triumphantly from Mlle. Armande to the Count . `` I have sold my connection . I have been working for a very long time now , and am thinking of retiring . By noon to-morrow I shall have a hundred thousand francs ; many things can be settled with that . Mademoiselle , you are tired , '' he added ; `` go back to the carriage and go home and sleep . Business to-morrow . '' `` Is he safe ? ''