Chapter
1 1 | rather have lost a thousand pistoles than have lost it." He would
2 2 | proof is that I paid twelve pistoles for it." ~The wonder was
3 6 | pockets you can find forty pistoles; and if you can find them,
4 6 | D'Artagnan put his forty pistoles into his pocket without
5 6 | found sharing the forty pistoles with d'Artagnan. ~The cardinal,
6 7 | of his share of the forty pistoles, Athos advised him to order
7 7 | might be worth two hundred pistoles, and which, nevertheless,
8 7 | is to say, when the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII were
9 8 | the meantime, the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII, like
10 8 | books--in procuring a few pistoles. ~Then, as they had been
11 8 | last effort, eight or ten pistoles, with which Porthos went
12 8 | together with twenty-five pistoles for which he had given his
13 8 | meaning to offer you fifty pistoles, if, against all probability,
14 9 | which there were a hundred pistoles, and perhaps more, to be
15 9 | may draw fifty or sixty pistoles from this good man. Then
16 9 | whether these fifty or sixty pistoles are worth the risk of four
17 9 | two that I sold for ten pistoles each. Do you know him, Aramis?" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "
18 14| this purse of a hundred pistoles, and pardon me." ~"I pardon
19 14| an order for two hundred pistoles; call upon my treasurer
20 14| order for the two hundred pistoles, and retired. ~Here is what
21 16| money. Send me five hundred pistoles, and four or five days after
22 17| how much?" ~"A thousand pistoles, perhaps." ~"What you demand
23 19| Treville. ~"Three hundred pistoles." ~"Oh, plenty! That would
24 19| in this bag three hundred pistoles. Let each take seventy-five;
25 19| and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don't
26 19| took his seventy- five pistoles, and make his preparations
27 20| mistrust, and took out two pistoles to pay the bill. The host
28 21| hesitation said, "Fifteen hundred pistoles each, my Lord." ~"How many
29 21| give you three thousand pistoles apiece if I can have them
30 21| an order for a thousand pistoles, to make you forget the
31 21| the order for the thousand pistoles, and charging her to send
32 23| which is worth a thousand pistoles if it is worth a denier.
33 23| you at least eight hundred pistoles. Pistoles have no name,
34 23| eight hundred pistoles. Pistoles have no name, young man,
35 23| woman will sell you for ten pistoles, witness Delilah. You are
36 23| money?" ~"I have still fifty pistoles. That, I think, is as much
37 23| each with seventy-five pistoles in his pocket." ~"Shall
38 25| How, not much! Twenty good pistoles, already, without reckoning
39 25| as I had the seventy-five pistoles in my pocket which you had
40 25| my faith, my seventy-five pistoles passed from my pocket to
41 27| one night three thousand pistoles; to lose them even to the
42 27| drunk more than a hundred pistoles' worth! I am a ruined man,
43 27| That purse contained sixty pistoles; where is it?" ~"Deposited
44 27| back and keep the sixty pistoles." ~"But Monseigneur knows
45 27| much is it worth?" ~"Fifty pistoles at most." ~"It's worth eighty.
46 28| he was bidding a hundred pistoles for a chestnut nag. 'PARDIEU,'
47 28| think he is worth a hundred pistoles?' 'Yes! Will you sell him
48 28| estimated it at a thousand pistoles." ~"I hope," said d'Artagnan,
49 28| into ten parts of a hundred pistoles each." ~"You are laughing
50 28| Ten parts of a hundred pistoles each, in ten throws, without
51 28| Englishman is overflowing with pistoles. Good Lord, try one throw!
52 28| against one horse or a hundred pistoles. The Englishman calculated
53 28| were worth three hundred pistoles. He consented. ~D'Artagnan
54 28| I would take the hundred pistoles. You know you have staked
55 28| against the horse or a hundred pistoles, at your choice." ~"Yes." ~"
56 28| should take the hundred pistoles. We want money for our return
57 28| the contrary, the hundred pistoles feed their master." ~"But
58 28| To take the hundred pistoles, d'Artagnan. With the hundred
59 28| Artagnan. With the hundred pistoles we can live well to the
60 28| louis. Take the hundred pistoles, my friend; take the hundred
61 28| friend; take the hundred pistoles!" ~D'Artagnan only required
62 28| therefore, and chose the hundred pistoles, which the Englishman paid
63 28| Athos's old horse, cost six pistoles. D'Artagnan and Athos took
64 28| left." ~"And I about ten pistoles," said Aramis. ~"Well, then
65 28| you left of your hundred pistoles, d'Artagnan.?" ~"Of my hundred
66 28| Artagnan.?" ~"Of my hundred pistoles? Why, in the first place
67 28| Why did you give him six pistoles?" ~"You told me to give
68 28| remains?" ~"Twenty-five pistoles," said d'Artagnan. ~"And
69 28| crowns." ~"Aramis?" ~"Ten pistoles." ~"And you, d'Artagnan?" ~"
70 31| we then only risked our pistoles; this time we risk our blood.
71 34| distributed the Englishman's pistoles, which were our legitimate
72 34| but if I had pocketed his pistoles, they would have weighed
73 34| and fifty Spanish double pistoles, which he laid down on the
74 34| put three or four double pistoles into his pocket to answer
75 38| easily obtained three hundred pistoles on the ring. Still further,
76 38| would give five hundred pistoles for it. ~Athos and d'Artagnan,
77 38| of his hundred and fifty pistoles. d'Artagnan offered his
78 38| said Athos. ~"Five hundred pistoles." ~"That is to say, two
79 38| hundred more--a hundred pistoles for you and a hundred pistoles
80 38| pistoles for you and a hundred pistoles for me. Well, now, that
81 38| masters of three hundred pistoles to redeem it, so that we
82 38| should lose two hundred pistoles by the bargain. Go and tell
83 38| bring back the two hundred pistoles with you." ~"Reflect, Athos!" ~"
84 39| Here are forty double pistoles, my dear friend," said d'
85 39| chinked the remainder of his pistoles in his pocket. ~"Send your
86 44| the sum of three thousand pistoles." ~"Well, monseigneur?" ~"
87 45| Porthos?" ~"I have won five pistoles of Aramis." ~"Well; now
88 46| Athos, and he threw two pistoles majestically on the table. ~"
89 48| Athos, quietly, drawing four pistoles from his pocket and throwing
90 58| France." ~"For a thousand pistoles," said the captain. ~"I
91 58| will give you a thousand pistoles." ~"Hurrah for you, then,
92 61| which she distribute her pistoles. Freed from the usual formalities
93 62| I have five hundred pistoles, or thereabouts." ~"I have
94 62| as much. With a thousand pistoles one may face everything.
95 66| the lackeys, "A thousand pistoles to each of you, if you will
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