Chap.

 1        1|   delight of the early years of Louis Philippe. Nowadays she drags
 2        2|         distress was her little Louis, a child she had given birth
 3        2|      consent to give the little Louis back to her. Nana, since
 4        2|        one to bring her fifteen louis! And then one couldn’t accept
 5        2|         Yes. How much?”~“Twenty louis.”~“At what o’clock?”~“At
 6        2|          Francis, have you five louis?” said Nana.~He drew back,
 7        2|         quietly remarked:~“Five louis, that’s according!”~“Ah,
 8        2|  gesture. Francis lent the five louis. Zoe, during each momentary
 9        4| happiness. Her baby, the little Louis, she said, was now at the
10        4|      yet always got twenty–five louis in his pocket! Footboy to
11        4|       had by now won some fifty louis from Vandeuvres. A fat gentleman
12        6|        her aunt to bring little Louis to her at once. It would
13        6|      with delicate rose–colored Louis XVI cretonne by an Orleans
14        7|         red “andrinople,” and a Louis XIII bed stood at one end
15        8|      destined to pay for little Louis’s board and lodging. Doubtless
16        8|       matter of ten and fifteen louis had she been able to maintain
17        8|        and then in the shape of louis picked up in the society
18        9|        here! I’ll bet a hundred louis that I’ll bring all those
19       10|   credences, huge chairs of the Louis XIII epoch. And thus Nana
20       10|      and somewhat too–sumptuous Louis XVI drawing room on those
21       10|        and she fished up many a louis out of the troubled waters.~
22       10|  Batignolles and see her little Louis at her aunt’s. For a fortnight
23       10|    Thereupon Madame sent them a louis as a pledge of reconciliation.
24       11|     jingo! I don’t put a single louis on myself.”~Labordette went
25       11|      Well, no, after all! Fifty louis on Lusignan; what do you
26       11|       He would put on her fifty louis for her as he might think
27       11|         I really must risk some louis in person.”~She had stood
28       11|     Nana, “I’m going to put ten louis on Lusignan and five on
29       11|        a possible gain of a few louis. In a word, the battle would
30       11|  Labordette to risk two hundred louis for her. The Tricon, as
31       11|         inspiration. I’ll bet a louis on Nana.”~“Bravo! I bet
32       11|         the world! Georges, ten louis on Lusignan and five on
33       11|        instance, ventured three louis, for the sight of Nana stirred
34       11|      obtain news of the hundred louis, but he burst out laughing
35       11|         him how she had put ten louis on Lusignan and five on
36       11|       amount?”~“Fifteen hundred louis—pretty well all over the
37       11|        odds?”~“To five thousand louis, Monsieur le Comte,” replied
38       11|        to lay your two thousand louis.”~At this Vandeuvres silenced
39       11|         Lusignan for a thousand louis.”~“Yes, I was there,” said
40       11|      And he didn’t put a single louis on Nana. If the betting’
41       11|         as much as five hundred louis on Lusignan, and if he’s
42       11|        Nana to run to a hundred louis it’s because an owner ought
43       11|       one o’clock. I lay twenty louis she isn’t placed! Oh, shut
44       11|         Oh, the carcass! My ten louis damned well lost! Nana’s
45       11|      her a gain of two thousand louis, for he had put her fifty
46       11|        having laid two thousand louis on the horse, which, supposing
47       11|  bookmaker, to lay two thousand louis on his account against Lusignan,
48       11| thousand and odd openly wagered louis. It was a miserable business,
49       11|       to him to put two hundred louis on Nana, which the bookmaker,
50       11|         and knocked down at two louis. Just then Nana arrived,
51       12|          held in high esteem by Louis Philippe, had been a PREFET
52       12|    cried La Faloise. “I bet ten louis she has thighs.”~Fauchery
53       12|       good friend. I’ve bet ten louis—now, has she thighs?”~And
54       13|         sums—sums of only a few louis. She was driven to borrow
55       13|       certainly to bring me ten louis tomorrow. It’s a bore, but
56       13|       because I ask you for ten louis? No, never! I’m too fond
57       13|    linen, and now she had not a louis remaining.~Toward two o’
58       13|      you wouldn’t be having ten louis about you?”~Labordette made
59       13|        sure to find twenty–five louis awaiting her at the other’
60       13|         out to earn twenty–five louis with another man.”~At these
61       13|       the sake of earning a few louis all those women whose slops
62       14|         is suffering. Hung with Louis XIII cretonne, which was
63       14|       where former ministers of Louis Philippe were wont to indulge
64       14|         re saying. I— I’ve seen Louis Philippe’s reign: it was