"I make no secret of my age; I am sixty-nine..."

"Major Eele (69) came to me seven years ago. He had had the misfortune to embark upon a marriage with a woman of forty-odd years, a marriage of which he has repeated to me various yarns..."

"“But that would make you sixty-nine years old,” I insisted...."

"In the year 1813, at the age of sixty-nine or thereabouts, "Father Goriot" had sold his business and retired—to Mme. Vauquer's boarding house."