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Jeanne What on Earth have you done? Gaston I? Made a hundred thousand Francs and a Carot! (i) How has Gaston made a hundred thousand francs? (b) Mention any two characteristics displayed by Gaston when he made a hundred thousand francs. (c) What is a Carot in these lines ?

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                (a) He had sold Juliette's villa for three hundred thousand francs to Mrs Al Smith without actually buying it. Subsequently, he bought it from Juliette for two hundred thousand francs. (b) Gaston appears as an opportunistic and calculative when he made a hundred thousand francs. (c) A painting made by a French landscape painter who is named JC Carot.