Chapter

 1 I  |         wine so as to~send him a hundred francs every month. His
 2 II |         look for a bill for five hundred~francs upon occasion"~ ~"
 3 II |          Blondet.~ ~"I want five hundred francs to repay Finot, so
 4 II |          worth no more than five hundred~francs. You will never be
 5 II |   shuddered at the idea of three hundred thousand francs' worth of
 6 II |         Yes, gentlemen!He took a hundred and fifty~thousand bottles
 7 II |       the same time. Those three~hundred thousand bottles which he
 8 II |         he had already won seven hundred thousand~francs on the race-course.
 9 IV |         it was, out of the three hundred guests that crowded the
10 IV |        here comes Sancho's three hundred goats."~ ~"Therein lies
11 IV |          made more~than eighteen hundred francs a year, and his mother
12 IV |        is leaving seven or eight hundred thousand francs,'~Taillefer
13 IV |    funeral. Ninety-nine out of a hundred that come to pay~their respects
14 IV |         that~she had barely four hundred thousand francs deposited
15 IV |       there remained to him five hundred thousand~francs and certain
16 IV |       her.~ ~"D'Aldrigger's four hundred thousand francs were carried
17 IV |    husband's creditor for twelve hundred thousand francs under her~
18 IV |     position. At that time three hundred thousand francs were~left;
19 V  |          something like eighteen hundred~thousand francs; money must
20 V  |           on the strength of two hundred thousand~francs, good hard
21 V  |        Aiglemont?"~ ~"Yes, and a hundred others," assented Bixiou.~ ~"
22 V  |      they might have a~couple of hundred pies for it."~ ~"What is
23 V  |        whatsoever, you take five hundred lives,~political crimes
24 V  |         Aldrigger with her three hundred thousand francs,~Beaudenord
25 V  |     francs,~Beaudenord with four hundred thousand, d'Aiglemont with
26 V  |      million,~Matifat with three hundred thousand, Charles Grandet (
27 V  |         than a thousand, or~five hundred, or even two hundred and
28 V  |        five hundred, or even two hundred and fifty francs. It was
29 V  |     Parliament hatch some twelve hundred laws every session, yet
30 VI |       bank. She gambles with two hundred and fifty franc stakes~instead
31 VI |    thousand francs fell to three hundred, they rose to seven and
32 VI |        sending up the shares two~hundred francs during the first
33 VI |         concern amounted to five hundred thousand francs. In the~
34 VII| Taillefer~followed up with three hundred thousand francs at a discount
35 VII|          Martin Falleix with two hundred thousand at fifteen.~Gigonnet
36 VII|      poor Matifat, who had three~hundred thousand francs in Nucingen'
37 VII|      Gigonnet; I am in for three hundred~thousand francs. I meant
38 VII|        this, but he had the four hundred~thousand francs which Nucingen
39 VII|          mines to the value of a hundred~thousand francs. The Nucingens
40 VII|          that~had fetched twelve hundred and fifty francs fell to
41 VII|        fifty francs fell to four hundred,~though intrinsically they
42 VII|         lowest, so~that of seven hundred thousand francs only two
43 VII|         thousand francs only two hundred thousand~remained. They