I had a friend who was in love with a poet of sorts. In his verses he never spoke of anything but love, and heaven, and the stars. Oh! she was properly taken in! He had more than three hundred thousand francs out of her before he'd finished.
J'avais une amie qui a aimé une espèce de poète. Dans ses vers il ne parlait que de l'amour, du ciel, des étoiles. Ah ! ce qu'elle a été refaite ! Il lui a croqué plus de trois cent mille francs.