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Original Text:
Excellent Placement.
– Comment Ernest tu as cent mille francs et tu ne me les donne pas ! tu as donc perdu la tête, mon pauvre ami……
- Mais, mon cher, ils sont placés, et très bien placés… à 6 pour cent. – 6% !!! 6% !!! décidément tu es malade, mon bon, mais si je ne te donnais pas 50% , 100% , j’aimerais mieux te rien donner du tout, moi !

Translation:
An excellent investment.
- What do you mean, Earnest, you have 100'000 Francs and you don't want to give them to me, you must have lost your mind, my good friend...
- But dear friend, I have invested them, invested them well at 6%.
- 6%!!! 6%!!! no doubt, you must be mad, old boy. If I wouldn't have offered you at least 50 or 100% I wouldn't even have mentioned it to you.