Chapter

  1 1|          of a dowry~of two hundred thousand francs. Carefully educated
  2 1|           spent nearly~one hundred thousand francs of their capital
  3 1|    investing the remaining~hundred thousand francs of her dowry in landed
  4 1|        give up his salary of eight thousand francs~and perquisites,
  5 1|           problem was hers! twelve thousand francs a year to defray~
  6 1|           an apartment costing two thousand francs a year. Deduct the~
  7 1| maintenance must cost at least two thousand francs~besides) and you
  8 1|         nothing for want of thirty~thousand government clerks! In fastening
  9 1|           should be~saddled with a thousand millions of taxes. In Monsieur
 10 1|          furnished. To pay a man a thousand~francs a year and demand
 11 1|            remunerated with twelve thousand francs~a year to devote
 12 1|           Taking the sum of twelve thousand francs a year for each~official
 13 1|          throughout France to five~thousand men, exclusive of the departments
 14 2|           taxes to the amount of a thousand francs; and~the miserable
 15 2|         our tale~opens, but thirty thousand francs of debt--undisputed
 16 2|             from a salary of eight thousand a year to twelve thousand.~
 17 2|          thousand a year to twelve thousand.~The clever woman believed
 18 2|        when she was to have twenty thousand francs a year instead of~
 19 2|            a year instead of~eight thousand.~ ~"And I shall have managed
 20 2|         little sum of twenty-~five thousand francs. When the appointment
 21 2|         man who brings~twenty-five thousand francs is always a worthy
 22 2|        brings the monthly thirteen thousand francs~whenever wanted;
 23 3|        them so--consisted of sixty thousand~francs entrusted to Falleix,
 24 3|           Royale, bought for~forty thousand in 1804, and thirty-six
 25 3|            in 1804, and thirty-six thousand francs given in dowry~to
 26 3|           this capital about fifty thousand~came to them by the will
 27 3|    government had always been four~thousand five hundred francs a year,
 28 3|        supersede him.~Those ninety thousand francs, put together sou
 29 3|           than to~carry them, five thousand francs at a time, to their
 30 3|          which was worth a hundred thousand francs, brought~in a rental
 31 3|       brought~in a rental of eight thousand. Falleix paid seven per
 32 3|       seven per cent for the~sixty thousand invested in the foundry,
 33 3|            not less~than seventeen thousand francs a year. The whole
 34 3|            whom they settled~fifty thousand francs, they determined
 35 3|           an income of~about three thousand francs left to live upon
 36 3|          we~have the place! Twelve thousand francs a year and perquisites,
 37 3|            Grajeux,--nearly twenty thousand francs a~year. It is not
 38 4|           kind costs ten or~twenty thousand francs a year; and he enjoys,
 39 4|            to be able to pay fifty thousand a~year to one of these amiable
 40 4|          and had, besides the four thousand five~hundred francs of his
 41 4|     hundred from the three hundred~thousand francs fund voted by the
 42 4|            diverse emoluments nine thousand francs earned by~his quarters,
 43 4|        marry a hunch-back with six thousand a year,~or a woman of forty-five
 44 4|       woman of forty-five at eight thousand, or an Englishwoman for~
 45 4|        that they could live on~two thousand, they married without settlements,
 46 4|  Bourdonnais. He thus earned three thousand francs a year, counting
 47 5|            t Monsieur Cochin three thousand? He succeeded~Monsieur Vavasseur,
 48 5|           under the Empire at four~thousand. His salary was dropped
 49 5|        first~returned; then to two thousand five hundred before Vavasseur
 50 5|           salary put back to three thousand."~ ~Colleville. "Monsieur
 51 5|         care. In Paris there are a thousand ways of~earning five francs
 52 5|       places are at the mercy of a thousand mischances because we~are
 53 5|      because we~are now ruled by a thousand sovereigns."~ ~Bixiou [returning]. "
 54 5|      Chazelle? Where do you find a~thousand sovereigns?--not in your
 55 5|         three powers you may bet a thousand to one that a government
 56 5|            a capital of forty-five thousand francs in centimes, which~
 57 5|        earn enough to give him~ten thousand francs a year; a painter
 58 5|          at a hundred francs for a thousand lines; he writes "feuilletons,"
 59 5|    rag-picker lays by two or three thousand francs a year, and~the poorest
 60 5|         him a present of a~hundred thousand francs,--the place can always
 61 5|          misfortune. Harassed by a thousand questions of government,
 62 5|            of thorny bushes with a thousand conflicting wills to conciliate.
 63 6|         the church,~that cost five thousand francs. I'll explain it
 64 6|                 The price was five thousand francs," said the Abbe Gaudron; "
 65 6|          Your eulogy costs us four thousand eight hundred francs, son-in-law!"~
 66 6|        place, which is worth eight thousand more, the~sacrifice is not
 67 6|            I don't regret the four thousand eight hundred-- Besides,~
 68 6|        with an income of a hundred thousand francs! to what~social position
 69 6|         send two hundred and fifty thousand francs (without~interest)
 70 6|          the two hundred~and fifty thousand francs I speak of,--good
 71 6|         taxes to the~amount of one thousand francs, the sum necessary
 72 7|       wished, to keep up on twelve thousand francs a year~the style
 73 7|          many a family with thirty thousand does not indulge in.~Consequently,
 74 7|        with a civil service of six thousand men instead of~twenty thousand?
 75 7|     thousand men instead of~twenty thousand? My dear friend, even allowing
 76 7|           have given me to-day ten~thousand francs a year outside of
 77 7|           a home as this on~twelve thousand francs a year!" he thought,
 78 7|        them believe that a hundred~thousand francs afford little or
 79 7|       afford little or that twelve thousand afford all.~ ~Though impatiently
 80 7|          wants~to suppress fifteen thousand offices and do the work
 81 7|          the work with five or six~thousand. You never heard of such
 82 7|            France with five or six thousand~offices, when what is really
 83 7|          an ornament costing three thousand francs, made by Fossin for
 84 7|              The enemy with thirty thousand~fresh troops is attacking
 85 7|           make a~couple of hundred thousand francs?"~ ~"And who will
 86 7|                He will owe us nine thousand francs interest a year,"
 87 8|         Bixou."~ ~"He shall have a thousand and be under-head-clerk
 88 8|            purchase of two hundred thousand francs' worth~of adjacent
 89 8|      income of a~couple of hundred thousand francs. And so, allow me
 90 8|          any rate, let me see that thousand francs."~ ~Dutocq. "You
 91 8|            reduced to live on four thousand francs a year; and that
 92 8|          something like thirty-two~thousand francs! The most ignoble
 93 8|            she said; "I owe thirty thousand francs."~ ~Rabourdin caught
 94 8|   Celestine embraced her husband a thousand times in the~single kiss
 95 8|         shall still have a hundred thousand francs to put into business.~
 96 8|            with salaries of twenty thousand francs are~not clerks. From
 97 8|            with a salary of twelve thousand francs would do better and
 98 8|            and quicker~work than a thousand clerks at twelve hundred."~ ~
 99 8|           voice]. "There are forty thousand government clerks in France.
100 8|     hundred francs. Multiply forty~thousand by fifteen hundred and you
101 8|            handles, therefore, two thousand four hundred millions, and