Part, Chapter

 1         I,I  |   merely~selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came
 2         I,I  | million. Cesarine will then be twenty, our~business will be sold,
 3         I,I  |    Faubourg du Temple; we have twenty thousand francs~here in
 4         I,I  |       spend sixty thousand, in twenty~years they will get to the
 5         I,I  |      endorsed to the amount of twenty thousand francs when he
 6         I,II |        hiding in~Paris,--a lad twenty years old, owning a few
 7         I,II |       Birotteau, now master at twenty years of age~of a thousand
 8         I,II |     would be able in less than twenty years to make a~modest capital
 9         I,II |      household cost~him nearly twenty thousand francs a year,
10         I,II |       judge him. Moreover, the twenty or thirty friends he~had
11         I,II |      asked his endorsement for twenty thousand~francs, to enable
12         I,III|       him. Love, in a youth of~twenty, feeds on devotion.~ ~"He
13         I,IV |      to complete the work?"~ ~"Twenty days."~ ~"What sum do you
14         I,IV |      six thousand francs means twenty~thousand. We are not in
15         I,IV |     premises, all finished, in twenty days. If we delay, you will
16         I,IV |        might make a~bargain at twenty francs. I don't want to
17         I,V  |             Yes, monsieur; and twenty years hence I shall remember
18         I,VI |       of thirty sous, and give twenty sous~discount to retailers?"~ ~"
19         I,VI |     without receipt, bills for twenty thousand francs~from his
20         I,VI |   showing his solitary coin of twenty francs, which~he was keeping
21         I,VII|     headquarters; a dinner for twenty people~was to be served
22         I,VII|         It takes a hundred and twenty wax-candles," said Braschon.~ ~"
23         I,I  |   would give him at the end of twenty~years one hundred thousand
24         I,II |      together gave him a scant~twenty thousand; he lacked ten
25         I,III|       nothing," said Popinot. "Twenty thousand francs worth~of
26         I,IV |       we in the desk?"~ ~"Only twenty thousand francs. Monsieur
27         I,IV |      and whom~he has known for twenty years?"~ ~"Roguin? A fool!
28         I,V  |   those~fifty thousand francs? Twenty thousand at the most; twenty
29         I,V  |   Twenty thousand at the most; twenty thousand,~do you hear me?
30         I,VI |      have been in~business for twenty years, and this is only
31         I,VII|        had gone over this road twenty years before, young,~prosperous,
32         I,VII|       followed along this path twenty years ago--like our~children
33         I,VII|          she said, "that after twenty years of married life~the
34         I,VII|   eighteen months, amounted to twenty thousand francs. I have~