Chapter

 1 I   |      six thousand four hundred francs and quietly put them in
 2 I   |  yielded about thirty thousand francs a year.~Living simply as
 3 I   |       I have spent one hundred francs to-day, and I have bought
 4 V   |   filled her lap: two thousand francs. She clapped her hands. “
 5 V   |     your mother’s two thousand francs, give them to me to carry.
 6 V   |        will give you a hundred francs,” he replied, “but do not
 7 V   |        am giving you a hundred francs?”~She took the five gold
 8 VII | property worth twenty thousand francs we shall have no lack of
 9 VII |       at least twenty thousand francs, but it will be settled
10 VIII|     throw away twenty thousand francs on that girl?”~No one replied,
11 VIII|       at least twenty thousand francs. He said: “Your parents
12 VIII|       shut up! Twenty thousand francs! twenty thousand francs!
13 VIII|        francs! twenty thousand francs! Why, they have lost their
14 VIII|   their heads! Twenty thousand francs for a bastard!”~Jeanne listened
15 VIII|     tone: “But fifteen hundred francs would be quite enough. They
16 VIII|       value of twenty thousand francs, in addition to making the
17 VIII|      he said: ‘Twenty thousand francs?’”~Little mother, whose
18 VIII|        told me fifteen hundred francs and M’sieu le Curé told
19 VIII|       is worth twenty thousand francs. I do not go back on my
20 VIII|       was only fifteen hundred francs. I said to myself: ‘I must
21 XI  |        was for fifteen hundred francs. He paid one thousand, saying
22 XI  |    contracted fifteen thousand francs’ worth of debts within the
23 XI  |      to leave me—five thousand francs—and you see that I am bound
24 XI  |    advance me fifteen thousand francs of papa’s fortune, for I
25 XI  |       him the fifteen thousand francs and heard nothing more from
26 XI  |    hundred and twenty thousand francs. He then wrote four letters
27 XI  |       and thirty-five thousand francs, and he once more mortgaged
28 XI  |     have not even ten thousand francs income. Not ten thousand,
29 XII |        be about seven thousand francs of income left, no more.~“
30 XII |   eight thousand three hundred francs. They would set aside thirteen
31 XII |     set aside thirteen hundred francs a year for repairs and for
32 XII |     then remain seven thousand francs, five thousand of which
33 XII |        asking for ten thousand francs. What should she do? At
34 XIII|     three thousand six hundred francs, the price of the furniture
35 XIII|       gave all but six hundred francs, which she held back; but
36 XIII|        more than three hundred francs, saying: “If you need more
37 XIII|     look for him. Here are ten francs for you. If you can get
38 XIII|        read the figures—ninety francs—which she paid without a
39 XIII|     she had left except twenty francs and then wrote to Rosalie
40 XIII|    came, enclosing two hundred francs. Rosalie wrote:~“Madame