Chap.

  1        1|  through three hundred thousand francs in the pursuit of women
  2        2|        the sum of three hundred francs before she would consent
  3        2|        t go beyond his thousand francs a month. The nigger’s beggared
  4        2|        help me to three hundred francs,” Nana kept repeating as
  5        2|         must have three hundred francs today, at once! It’s stupid
  6        2|       ll give you three hundred francs.”~She racked her brains.
  7        2|        an income of six hundred francs a year. Nana promised to
  8        2|       and to give her a hundred francs a month besides. At the
  9        2|        she said. “Three hundred francs for the nurse, fifty for
 10        2|        hundred and fifty. Fifty francs I keep.”~The big difficulty
 11        2|      change. There were not ten francs in the house. But they did
 12        2|      she brought back a hundred francs in hundred–sou pieces. They
 13        2|     where she had put her fifty francs on changing her dress. But
 14        2|       of the two. He took fifty francs but left one piece behind
 15        2|       ve got away with my fifty francs!”~She wasn’t vexed. It struck
 16        3|  Piedefer ran a dinner at three francs a head for little women
 17        6|           Four hundred thousand francs.”~“And the mother?” queried
 18        7|     able to pay up his thousand francs on the occasions when she
 19        7|      His three hundred thousand francs had only lasted him eighteen
 20        7|         not find her a thousand francs to pay a bill with she would
 21        7|     very morning.~“The thousand francs!” he ended by declaring
 22        7|       remembered.~“The thousand francs!” she cried. “D’you think
 23        7|      what I value your thousand francs at!”~And snatching the envelope,
 24        8|    taking with her ten thousand francs and never even warning the
 25        8|     part, nearly seven thousand francs, and despite the fact that
 26        8|     where the dinner cost three francs.~Tired of waiting for the
 27        8|      was only a matter of three francs, but she felt it was hard
 28        8|       paid up, throwing the six francs at Laure, whom at the moment
 29        8|         had certainly spent six francs, but in Mme Maloir’s society.
 30        8|      question. Did he spend six francs when he dined out? No, somebody
 31        8|         were to go throwing six francs out of the window every
 32        8|         scarcely seven thousand francs remaining out of seventeen
 33        8|  thousand eight hundred and odd francs. Thereupon the tempest burst
 34        8|      burst forth.~“Ten thousand francs in three months!” he yelled. “
 35        8|       know those seven thousand francs are mine. Yes, and as I’
 36        8|         through my ten thousand francs. It’s a dirty trick, I tell
 37        8|      out the sparse, occasional francs destined to pay for little
 38        8|       caused the seven thousand francs to vanish away. Without
 39        8|     days he had given out three francs every morning. But he was
 40        8|        everything for his three francs—butter, meat, early fruit
 41        8|         in the market for three francs, he flew into a temper and
 42        8|  forgotten to deposit the three francs on the chest of drawers,
 43        8|     even returned him his three francs, telling him a tale to the
 44        8|        used to bring back forty francs, sixty francs, sometimes
 45        8|        back forty francs, sixty francs, sometimes more. She might
 46        8|   present of his seven thousand francs. Indeed, that was how their
 47        9|       people, eh? Three hundred francs an evening for a hundred
 48        9|       to be given three hundred francs Mignon would chuck my friend
 49        9|   believer in the three hundred francs. That man Fontan was always
 50        9|      offered Rose three hundred francs a night during a hundred
 51        9|      gainer by fifteen thousand francs the moment he let her depart.
 52        9|         forfeit of ten thousand francs in case she gave up the
 53        9|      them give her ten thousand francs, and she would go to the
 54        9|        instincts. “Ten thousand francs to let Rose go! Why, people
 55        9|    regret over the ten thousand francs which, by the by, were not
 56        9|     here is giving ten thousand francs in order to get you to give
 57        9|         tones that ten thousand francs from one party and fifteen
 58       10|      there were twenty thousand francs’ worth of POINT DE VENISE
 59       10|     than three hundred thousand francs. There were eight horses
 60       10|      count gave twelve thousand francs monthly, presents excepted,
 61       10|      from eight to ten thousand francs a month, and this would
 62       10|      cost four or five thousand francs and would be occupied during
 63       10|         need of eighty thousand francs wherewith to free the young
 64       10|     bill for a hundred thousand francs which he was to sign, excusing
 65       10|       matter of twenty thousand francs interest and loudly denouncing
 66       10|    sight of the eighty thousand francs had excited her. To think
 67       11|        Gaga for thirty thousand francs, they said.~“Good gracious!
 68       11|      who had made three million francs in two years. He was slight
 69       11|         twelve hundred thousand francs, an amount so vast as to
 70       11|    realized some sixty thousand francs over the horse. Only Labordette,
 71       11|         of one hundred thousand francs over the filly and a loser
 72       11|   bearer of some forty thousand francs. This only added to her
 73       12|     bill for a hundred thousand francs had been put in circulation
 74       12|       and five hundred thousand francs were squandered in utterly
 75       12|         to two hundred thousand francs and of then being free to
 76       12|   Labordette’s hundred thousand francs, Muffat had been able to
 77       12|         paid a hundred thousand francs at the sale of the Chateau
 78       13|      amounting to five thousand francs. The wildest waste went
 79       13|         which cost ten thousand francs and had been twice worn,
 80       13|     settlement. Twenty thousand francs were due to the modiste,
 81       13|     hundred and twenty thousand francs at her ladies’ tailor. Though
 82       13|        at four hundred thousand francs on an average, she ran up
 83       13|       would cost fifty thousand francs, and Muffat was to give
 84       13|        for loans of two hundred francs, three hundred francs— never
 85       13|   hundred francs, three hundred francs— never more than that—wherewith
 86       13|        to a sum of ten thousand francs. The captain still laughed
 87       13|   having stolen twelve thousand francs from the chest of his regiment.
 88       13|        hundred and thirty–three francs, and despite her royal housekeeping
 89       13| appearance with his two hundred francs. It was regular bad luck,
 90       13|       time, some twelve hundred francs’ worth of dresses and linen,
 91       13|       moment; it’s six thousand francs extra.”~“It’s all the same
 92       13|        in getting five thousand francs out of the count. However,
 93       13|        hundred and thirty–three francs from Zoe; she already owed
 94       13|         promised me two hundred francs. Oh, dear me; yes, I can
 95       13|       promised her ten thousand francs he had dared keep his appointment
 96       13|      bring me that ten thousand francs tonight you shan’t even
 97       13|        brought the ten thousand francs. Nana put up her lips, and
 98       13|     saved about thirty thousand francs in his ten years of service,
 99       13|         for a loan of a hundred francs wherewith to pay his maidservant.
100       13|         was not worth a hundred francs a year, and he saw that
101       13|     Nana demanded four thousand francs forthwith. He was not due
102       13|   brought her the four thousand francs, and she had let him have
103       13|         a sum of sixty thousand francs, a legacy left her by an
104       14|       than six hundred thousand francs. For the last time Paris
105       14|      floor upstairs cost twelve francs a day, since Rose had wanted