I. The merchant offers a gold altar to Saint Catherine

2. He has been rich and liberal for a long time. 3. But he suffers great losses in the war and thirty of his ships are lost at sea. 4. So that when he wishes to pay what he owes, he will find himself stripped of everything. 5. When he asks his friends to lend him money, he will receive an unfavorable reply everywhere.

EXERCICE XrX

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A. Conversation