Chapter
1 I | June and he had only three francs in his pocket to last him
2 I | office at fifteen hundred francs a year.”~Forestier murmured: “
3 I | I can get three thousand francs at least—as riding-master
4 I | you can earn ten thousand francs. You will ruin your prospects
5 I | He earns thirty thousand francs a year for two articles
6 I | gives us costs three hundred francs and the longest has not
7 I | get two hundred and fifty francs a month but your cab fare
8 II | evening at the Louvre for four francs fifty, his trousers were
9 III | will receive two hundred francs a months, two sous a line
10 IV | Duroy drew his two hundred francs together with twenty-eight
11 IV | together with twenty-eight francs for his article of the preceding
12 IV | three hundred and forty francs. He had never had so much,
13 IV | fixed salary of two hundred francs and as his expenses were
14 V | was one hundred and thirty francs. Duroy glanced at the bill
15 V | not know.”~He laid five francs upon the plate and handed
16 V | owed Forestier a hundred francs, Jacques Rival three hundred,
17 V | debts ranging from twenty francs to one hundred sous.~On
18 V | The man handed him three francs and asked:~“Is that enough?”~“
19 V | lunch upon Clotilde’s twenty francs; that will not hinder me
20 V | lunch, for which he paid two francs fifty, and on entering the
21 V | repaid the porter the three francs he had borrowed from him.
22 V | to draw upon the twenty francs until only four francs twenty
23 V | twenty francs until only four francs twenty remained. He decided
24 V | her purse, and taking two francs fifty from it, she handed
25 VI | it large?”~“Five hundred francs.” He only needed two hundred
26 VI | gentleman! If you want twenty francs you can have them, but no
27 VI | clock had collected eighty francs. As he required two hundred
28 VI | At first twelve hundred francs were allowed Duroy, who
29 VII | pay here?”~“One hundred francs a month.”~“Very well, I
30 IX | replied: “Forty thousand francs.”~His father whistled softly
31 IX | Georges gave them two hundred francs to appease them, and the
32 XI | two hundred and twenty francs remained for the orphans
33 XIII | of earning fifty thousand francs—or even more if you wish
34 XIII | sixty-four or sixty-five francs; how when the expedition
35 XIII | it is only seventy-two francs.”~He replied: “But I have
36 XIII | intended buying ten thousand francs’ worth of the stock; instead,
37 XIII | will make seventy thousand francs; if not, you will owe me
38 XIII | pay you back ten thousand francs.”~She was so delighted that
39 XIII | remembered the seventy thousand francs he was going to make, and
40 XIII | buy to-morrow ten thousand francs’ worth of Moroccan stock
41 XIII | have made eighty thousand francs. Tell him to maintain absolute
42 XIII | would cost eighteen hundred francs. He thought with joy: “If
43 XIII | make my seventy thousand francs, I can pay for it”—and he
44 XIII | promised seventy thousand francs as very insignificant. Suddenly
45 XIV | for six hundred thousand francs and landed~property for
46 XIV | given one hundred thousand francs. In my opinion the will
47 XIV | nephew for fifty thousand francs?”~She replied haughtily: “
48 XIV | him the hundred thousand francs he demands, and take them
49 XIV | deducting fifty thousand francs each we will still have
50 XIV | for five hundred thousand francs, which Madeleine du Roy
51 XIV | replied: “Three thousand francs, sir.”~“If you will let
52 XIV | chronometer at fifteen hundred francs; that makes four thousand,
53 XV | He offered three million francs for it. The prince, tempted
54 XV | the five hundred thousand francs extorted from his wife,
55 XV | him the seventy thousand francs she had made for him. He
56 XVIII| his parents five thousand francs of Count de Vaudrec’s fortune
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