Part, Chapter
1 I,I | have put in motion a cook, three clerks, and a shop-~boy.
2 I,I | value which it will bring three years from now, at~which
3 I,I | certain shares. I furnish three~hundred thousand francs,--
4 I,I | to cross our arms and in three~years we shall be rich by
5 I,I | Where will you get your three hundred thousand francs?"
6 I,I | discount. So there are the three hundred thousand francs~
7 I,I | wakefulness, Madame! For three months the success~of Macassar
8 I,I | years, we should be worth~three thousand francs a year;
9 I,I | secret of his~stealing that three thousand francs,--for I
10 I,II | vines he tilled. He had three~sons; his wife died in giving
11 I,II | waistcoat, a peasant's jacket, three coarse~shirts of good linen,
12 I,II | establishment for which he had paid three quarters of the price down,~
13 I,II | price of a cake of Paste is three francs; that of the bottle~
14 I,II | from Birotteau more than three hundred~gross of the Paste
15 I,II | measured Cesar during the first three years of their married~life,
16 I,II | up his monthly accounts, three thousand francs~were found
17 I,II | suspicions which fell upon three clerks, one cook, a~shop-boy,
18 I,II | said the worthy man, "three thousand francs are missing~
19 I,II | about the desk Cesar slipped three~bills of a thousand francs
20 I,III| protection; but for the past three years he had fallen a prey
21 I,III| violent passion. Through~his three sleeping-partners Ferdinand
22 I,III| thousand francs,~du Tillet three hundred thousand, and the
23 I,III| Popinot. I~give a great ball three weeks hence; get yourself
24 I,IV | Small fry, two months,~three months--"~ ~"Take them as
25 I,IV | Rome where he had spent~three years at the cost of the
26 I,IV | own plan.~ ~"You have now three front windows on the first
27 I,IV | locks were never more than three years old, not a~pane of
28 I,IV | lamb was five feet high and three feet round, and she looked
29 I,V | took a small appartement of three rooms in the Rue des Bourdonnais
30 I,V | brusquely.~ ~"I am in for three eighths, you and the Ragons
31 I,V | must be getting rich to put three hundred thousand~francs
32 I,V | t be a perfect man."~ ~"Three o'clock already!" cried
33 I,V | Napoleon. My wife gives a ball, three weeks from Sunday;~pray
34 I,V | how could we sell it for three or four francs~the four
35 I,V | going on with his joke, "my three eighths will only~be worth
36 I,V | vision of a ball inspired the three clerks, Raguet, and Virginie~
37 I,VI | that we could use oil at~three francs, and make a profit
38 I,VI | Because he never used our oil. Three francs for the Oil Cesarine,~
39 I,VI | it to hide the~smell."~ ~Three days later the commercial
40 I,VI | Above these rooms~were three narrow little chambers pushed
41 I,VI | he intended to dwell. The three~rooms were dilapidated,
42 I,VI | two scullions bearing in~three baskets a dinner, and six
43 I,VI | prevent counterfeits. Price, THREE FRANCS. A. POPINOT, Rue
44 I,VI | bamboozle the public."~ ~The three young fellows devoured their
45 I,VII| the~house-painter. She has three hundred thousand francs /
46 I,VII| said that Cesar had hired three houses, and that he was~
47 I,VII| up the last brackets, and three men~were lighting the rooms.~ ~"
48 I,VII| Next came~a salon, with three windows on the street, in
49 I,VII| The happiness of these~three persons is not to be described,
50 I,VII| Hope, and Charity, the~three noblest virtues of humanity,
51 I,VII| before him,~smiled at the three delighted people, and shook
52 I,VII| Billardiere. With the exception~of three women who severally represented
53 I,VII| by the airy graces of the three other women.~ ~The bourgeoisie
54 I,VII| their busy lives; while the three women, who each~represented
55 I,VII| dress and bearing,--just as three leading singers at an opera
56 I,VII| a link which united the three types~of feminine aristocracy
57 I,VII| will be worth more than three~thousand francs to me."~ ~
58 I,VII| bouillotte/. Du Tillet won three thousand francs. The day
59 I,I | listened as gravely as the three~strangers, though they perfectly
60 I,I | and the result was that three large contractors--Lourdois,
61 I,I | money, had asked for payment~three times. Failure to pay such
62 I,I | from Claparon,--there's three hundred~thousand francs
63 I,I | bought the practice for~three hundred thousand francs,--
64 I,I | curtains!"~ ~At the end of three terrible days, during which
65 I,I | means. If he saves only~three thousand francs a year,
66 I,I | wish to be liable to pay three times."~ ~"Three times!"
67 I,I | to pay three times."~ ~"Three times!" said Cesar.~ ~"Yes,
68 I,I | should~have to pay for it three times."~ ~"Reimburse whom?"
69 I,I | carried off, as they say, three hundred thousand~francs,
70 I,II | replied that it might take three months to get such a~judgment
71 I,II | annul the agreement.~ ~"Three months!" cried Birotteau,
72 I,II | placards were pasted in three days on~the most conspicuous
73 I,II | hands, sending Celestin three hundred~bottles of oil?"~ ~"
74 I,II | there were ten of them; three~hundred francs for every
75 I,II | Cephalic Oil was mentioned three times a month!~Finot saw
76 I,II | times a month!~Finot saw three thousand francs for himself
77 I,II | and so judicious a~use. Three months later he became editor-in-chief
78 I,II | carried by storm, begot three successes, three fortunes,~
79 I,II | begot three successes, three fortunes,~and proved the
80 I,II | Birotteau saw the banker three times, as he accompanied
81 I,II | certain~persons of importance three steps from the door of his
82 I,III| Birotteau's household once in three months, on great~festive
83 I,III| do if you failed within~three months, and my ten thousand
84 I,III| Birotteau, who had taken three glasses of wine, and~was
85 I,III| we sold his oil?"~ ~"The three hundred bottles he sent
86 I,III| Tillet, who robbed us of three thousand francs! So you~
87 I,III| work for the master and his three clerks. Popinot,~penned
88 I,III| Pillerault,~Anselme, the three Birotteaus, three Matifats,
89 I,III| Anselme, the three Birotteaus, three Matifats, and the Abbe Loraux.~
90 I,IV | IV~During the first three days of the year, two hundred
91 I,IV | Birotteau presented himself~three times at the hotel of the
92 I,IV | credit was unattainable. If three~bankers refused it, it was
93 I,IV | indiscreet,~knocked sharply three times on the door opposite
94 I,IV | have to pay down at least three hundred thousand francs
95 I,V | forty~thousand francs in three months. The known integrity
96 I,V | business when we must stand up~three days before the world without
97 I,V | cannot live through those three days; and the whole matter
98 I,V | Listomere has lent me in three~years; so do not make yourself
99 I,V | curtains to its windows. All three sat down in the~inner room
100 I,V | situation is not hopeless. You three might earn~nearly ten thousand
101 I,V | been to~her shop two or three times in search of those
102 I,V | lodging, and a~salary of three thousand francs from one
103 I,V | The noble lad~gave her three thousand francs a year,
104 I,V | depths of their courage. All three were~like sailors ready
105 I,V | life, as he looked at these three beings folded together in
106 I,V | Birotteau, feeblest of the three and~the most stricken, raised
107 I,VI | chrysalis~lasts for about three months,--a period required
108 I,VI | athirst for payment,~in three months. Before ninety days
109 I,VI | fine commercial drama is in three distinct acts,--the agent'
110 I,VI | believes as it likes. After~three months employed in auditing
111 I,VI | copper will bring about three hundred~thousand francs.
112 I,VI | formidable assemblage to three solicitors, himself,~Ragon,
113 I,VI | half past ten~o'clock the three reached the cloister Saint-Merri,
114 I,VI | judge and the assignees. The three solicitors were already
115 I,VI | have received orders for three~thousand gross."~ ~"Three
116 I,VI | three~thousand gross."~ ~"Three thousand gross!" exclaimed
117 I,VI | their last penny. These three beings,--father,~mother,
118 I,VI | did Madame Birotteau. All~three, feeling themselves incapable,
119 I,VII| will, moreover, cost me~three thousand francs a year to
120 I,VII| Cesar, "is going to make three~hundred thousand francs
121 I,VII| our/ lease."~ ~"That is three thousand francs a year,"
122 I,VII| spite of myself. Your~look--three words suffice--"~ ~"Stop!"
123 I,VII| him away, he robbed us of~three thousand francs."~ ~"I was
124 I,VII| doubt placed in the desk three~thousand francs,--the price
125 I,VII| which I did not~receive till three years later. All this explains
126 I,VII| foolishness; du Tillet wrote me three~love-letters, which pictured
127 I,VII| effaced by the anguish of three months.~ ~"I hoped to end
128 I,VII| there; and he failed in three months," said Molineux. "
129 I,VII| see, for the first time in three years, a genuine smile on
130 I,VII| Birotteau following. All three had driven round to the
131 I,VII| home."~ ~"No; it is only three o'clock. I wish to go to
132 I,VII| disturbed the minds of the~three old friends.~ ~It is a fault
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