Chapter

 1 I    |     know where I can get three thousand francs at least—as riding-master
 2 I    |       it, for you can earn ten thousand francs. You will ruin your
 3 I    |      in Paris. He earns thirty thousand francs a year for two articles
 4 IV   |       voice, he said: “I beg a thousand pardons, Madame, and thank
 5 IX   |        Georges replied: “Forty thousand francs.”~His father whistled
 6 XIII |         de Marelle, invented a thousand and one pretexts in order
 7 XIII |     the means of earning fifty thousand francs—or even more if you
 8 XIII |   money. I intended buying ten thousand francs’ worth of the stock;
 9 XIII |    instead, I will take twenty thousand and you can have half. There
10 XIII | succeeds, we will make seventy thousand francs; if not, you will
11 XIII |       not, you will owe me ten thousand which you can repay at your
12 XIII |        I will pay you back ten thousand francs.”~She was so delighted
13 XIII |      he remembered the seventy thousand francs he was going to make,
14 XIII |        me to buy to-morrow ten thousand francs’ worth of Moroccan
15 XIII |       he will have made eighty thousand francs. Tell him to maintain
16 XIII |     joy: “If I make my seventy thousand francs, I can pay for it”—
17 XIII |     light heart, thinking of a thousand things—of the fortune he
18 XIII |      Walter’s promised seventy thousand francs as very insignificant.
19 XIV  |      and bonds for six hundred thousand francs and landed~property
20 XIV  |      property for five hundred thousand, to Mme. Claire Madeleine
21 XIV  |        he be given one hundred thousand francs. In my opinion the
22 XIV  |      with the nephew for fifty thousand francs?”~She replied haughtily: “
23 XIV  |       No. Give him the hundred thousand francs he demands, and take
24 XIV  |      it. After deducting fifty thousand francs each we will still
25 XIV  |        a deed for five hundred thousand francs, which Madeleine
26 XIV  |        jeweler replied: “Three thousand francs, sir.”~“If you will
27 XIV  |    will let me have it for two thousand five hundred, I will take
28 XIV  |        francs; that makes four thousand, and I will pay cash. If
29 XV   |  wealthy with the five hundred thousand francs extorted from his
30 XV   |     might give him the seventy thousand francs she had made for
31 XV   |    some money.”~“Barely twenty thousand livres a year. It is a mere
32 XV   |        million together; forty thousand a year. We cannot even keep
33 XVIII|      lover, before her and two thousand persons, and she could say
34 XVIII|     had given his parents five thousand francs of Count de Vaudrec’
35 XVIII|    intended sending them fifty thousand more; then they could buy