text:  Menou?" I must observe by way of parenthesis that I had lent these eight thousand dollars to Richards some five years previously; and although on more than one occasion during that time the money would have been of considerable use to me I had been restrained from asking it back by my natural indolence and laziness of character added to the nonsensical notion of generosity and devotion in friendship that I had picked out of waggon-loads of novels