Chapter

 1 1|               saddled with a thousand millions of taxes. In Monsieur Rabourdin'
 2 1|           average, he estimated seven millions as the cost of the~whole
 3 1|               supposing there~are six millions of tax-payers in easy circumstances (
 4 1|            and would return a hundred millions,~rather than harass them
 5 1|             you obtain ten or a dozen millions; the modern "gabelle"~disappears,
 6 1|          exhibited only seven hundred millions of expenditures and~twelve
 7 1|       expenditures and~twelve hundred millions of receipts. A saving of
 8 1|              A saving of five hundred millions~annually had far more virtue
 9 3|              If he~were fated to make millions he would always belong to
10 6|           whom I helped to make their millions!"~ ~"Listen," whispered
11 7|        contrary, to reach two hundred millions. Then, indeed, France would
12 8|            hundred and you have sixty millions. Now, in the~first place,
13 8|             revenue of twelve hundred millions, and she~spends it. That
14 8|             two thousand four hundred millions, and all~she pays for the
15 8|              who do the work is sixty millions,--~two and a half per cent;
16 8| administrative kitchen costs us~sixty millions, but the gendarmerie, the