Sonst käme die ganze Geschichte und auch die Veräußerung des Grundstücks heraus. Letztere hatte der Händler so geschickt betrieben, daß sie erst viel später bekannt wurde.
The next morning at daybreak Emma ran to Lheureux to beg him to make out another account for not more than a thousand francs, for to show the one for four thousand it would be necessary to say that she had paid two-thirds, and confess, consequently, the sale of the estate—a negotiation admirably carried out by the shopkeeper, and which, in fact, was only actually known later on.