Chapter

 1 I   |         his fortune—about twenty thousand francs a year ($3,840) in
 2 III |      could easily make a hundred thousand francs a year. And he calculated
 3 III |          mount up to seventy-two thousand francs a year at least,
 4 III |      least, or even seventy-five thousand; for ten patients was certainly
 5 III |       ten francs each—thirty-six thousand francs. Here, then, in round
 6 III |          was an income of twenty thousand francs. Old patients, or
 7 III |       taking it, the terms—three thousand francs—pulled him up; the
 8 III |       brought him in about eight thousand francs a year, and Pierre
 9 III |          into a legacy of twenty thousand francs a year.”~She opened
10 III |        and sealed; he had twenty thousand francs a year. In the sound
11 IV  |          fancy, I got it for two thousand eight hundred francs a year.
12 IV  |         a year. They asked three thousand, but I got a reduction of
13 VI  |           for she had but twelve thousand francs a year; but it was
14 VIII|      make as much as twenty-five thousand francs a year or more.”~
15 VIII|      purser makes as much as ten thousand, and the doctor has a fixed
16 VIII|       has a fixed salary of five thousand, with lodgings, keep, light,
17 VIII|         which makes it up to ten thousand at least. That is very good
18 VIII| beginning, a way of saving a few thousand francs to start fair with
19 VIII|          can put by six or seven thousand francs, and that well laid