Chapter

 1 I   |      railroad office at fifteen hundred francs a year.”~Forestier
 2 I   |         he gives us costs three hundred francs and the longest has
 3 I   |         the longest has not two hundred lines. But let us go into
 4 I   |    first you would only get two hundred and fifty francs a month
 5 III |     doors. You will receive two hundred francs a months, two sous
 6 IV  |         I have interviewed five hundred Chinese, Prussians, Hindoos,
 7 IV  |       that direction. Total—one hundred sous for cabfare. That is
 8 IV  |    cashier.”~Duroy drew his two hundred francs together with twenty-eight
 9 IV  | railroad office, left him three hundred and forty francs. He had
10 IV  |         his fixed salary of two hundred francs and as his expenses
11 V   |         hand.~The total was one hundred and thirty francs. Duroy
12 V   |        that he owed Forestier a hundred francs, Jacques Rival three
13 V   |     francs, Jacques Rival three hundred, and he was hampered with
14 V   |       from twenty francs to one hundred sous.~On the fourteenth
15 VI  |     debt.”~“Is it large?”~“Five hundred francs.” He only needed
16 VI  |     francs.” He only needed two hundred and eighty.~Forestier asked
17 VI  |      francs. As he required two hundred more, he kept what he had
18 VI  |         salary. At first twelve hundred francs were allowed Duroy,
19 VII |     much do you pay here?”~“One hundred francs a month.”~“Very well,
20 IX  |         saw an old couple not a hundred meters off, approaching,
21 IX  |           Georges gave them two hundred francs to appease them,
22 XI  |         expenses were paid, two hundred and twenty francs remained
23 XIII|       which would cost eighteen hundred francs. He thought with
24 XIV |        stocks and bonds for six hundred thousand francs and landed~
25 XIV |        landed~property for five hundred thousand, to Mme. Claire
26 XIV |         them if he be given one hundred thousand francs. In my opinion
27 XIV |    haughtily: “No. Give him the hundred thousand francs he demands,
28 XIV |     they signed a deed for five hundred thousand francs, which Madeleine
29 XIV |        it for two thousand five hundred, I will take it.”~The man
30 XIV |     this chronometer at fifteen hundred francs; that makes four
31 XV  |   himself wealthy with the five hundred thousand francs extorted