Chapter

  1  1,1|       with breakfast and fifteen francs a month, on condition she
  2  1,1|         Then I shall want thirty francs a month," replied Madame
  3  1,1|         never given over fifteen francs." ~But Madame Vantrasson
  4  1,1|          could only give fifteen francs," interrupted Madame Ferailleur - "
  5  1,1|       willingness to deduct five francs from the sum she had named,
  6  1,1|       Would they haggle over ten francs to secure such a treasure
  7  1,1|        will give you twenty-five francs - but on condition you come
  8  1,1|         dinner." And taking five francs from her pocket she placed
  9  2,1|     smashed two or three hundred francs' worth of dishes. He MUST
 10  2,2|     Total, twenty-seven thousand francs!" ~"Excuse me! Twenty-seven
 11  2,2|         hundred and thirty-three francs, ninety centimes." ~"Call
 12  2,2|         it twenty-eight thousand francs then. Ah, well, M. Van Klopen,
 13  2,2|          Trigault eight thousand francs a month for her toilette -
 14  2,2|         a bill of forty thousand francs? That I would not be responsible
 15  2,3|         of twenty-eight thousand francs. For what was this amount
 16  2,3|        or eight hundred thousand francs a year, can't go about clad
 17  2,4|          s twenty-eight thousand francs before this evening. I will
 18  2,4|     diamonds for thirty thousand francs - I authorize you to do
 19  2,4|       already owe three thousand francs to one of my coachmen; it
 20  2,4|        not twenty-seven thousand francs you owe Van Klopen, but
 21  2,4|    require twenty-eight thousand francs before to-night, it is because
 22  2,5|         had two hundred thousand francs! I said to you as I embraced
 23  2,5|         two years the million of francs which I bestowed on her
 24  2,5|        me for a hundred thousand francs, and when I refused them,
 25  3,2|          or two hundred thousand francs," said he; "that is an all-sufficient
 26  3,2|         more than forty thousand francs." ~ ~To talk of selling -
 27  3,2|          fifty or sixty thousand francs a year," observed the baron. ~ ~"
 28  3,2|        the twenty-three thousand francs I won last year, cost me
 29  3,2|       hundred and fifty thousand francs for his stable; forty thousand
 30  3,2|       his stable; forty thousand francs for Ninette Simplon; eighty
 31  3,2|      hundred and thirty thousand francs a year. Does his income
 32  3,3|     least three hundred thousand francs safely invested; her furniture
 33  3,3|      promised her fifty thousand francs to dry her tears with on
 34  4,1|     least eight hundred thousand francs a year, he received in the
 35  4,1|          his wife eight thousand francs a month, almost one hundred
 36  4,1|      almost one hundred thousand francs a year, merely for her dresses
 37  4,2|         that my hundred thousand francs will be lost forever if
 38  4,2|        borrow a hundred thousand francs of me proves it; and, besides,
 39  5,1|    something like eight thousand francs a year - on the plea that
 40  5,3|          a cost of five thousand francs, he beguiled a poor devil
 41  5,3|         to pay you five thousand francs quarterly. Here is the amount
 42  5,3|         the table, five thousand francs in glittering gold. ~If
 43  5,3|     hastily slipped five hundred francs into his pocket, locked
 44  5,3|      with a bill of four hundred francs, for which amount he was
 45  5,3|    remained of the five thousand francs that had been given him
 46  5,3|        He had just three hundred francs left. ~ ~
 47  5,4|                4~Twenty thousand francs a year is what one chooses
 48  5,4|         poverty. Twenty thousand francs a year represents about
 49  5,4|      year represents about sixty francs a day; but what are sixty
 50  5,4|          day; but what are sixty francs to a high liver, who breakfasts
 51  5,4|          for less than a hundred francs? What are three louis a
 52  5,4|          cheque for one thousand francs - a mere drop in the bucket.
 53  5,4|  Patterson sent him two thousand francs, and an interminable epistle
 54  5,5|         thirty or forty thousand francs a year that were indispensable
 55  5,5|         bank-notes of a thousand francs, and handed them to M. Wilkie,
 56  5,6|      least five hundred thousand francs - a fortune - a competency,
 57  6,2|       lost five hundred thousand francs; and, in order to prevent
 58  6,2|      hundred and eighty thousand francs. ~"I only returned to inform
 59  6,3|       cost me a hundred thousand francs to do so, but I shall not
 60  6,3|         About a hundred thousand francs, isn't it? Very well, then.
 61  6,3|     amount of a hundred thousand francs. On the day these notes
 62  6,5|      hundred and eighty thousand francs." He settled his hat firmly
 63  7,1|     allowance of twenty thousand francs! No more debts, no more
 64  7,4|         more than fifty thousand francs during the past two years?
 65  7,5|         eight or ten millions of francs. Do you deny it?" ~Madame
 66  7,5|         of five hundred thousand francs,' and he'll say no more." ~
 67  7,5|       the paltry twenty thousand francs a year formerly given you
 68  8,1|       for the fare - thirty-five francs - not counting the little
 69  8,1|     enough! Here are thirty-five francs." ~The man went to his carriage
 70  8,3|         from fifteen sous to two francs a pound, according to quality.
 71  8,4|          or six hundred thousand francs a year! Still I know that
 72  8,4|          than a hundred thousand francs a year - and that is saying
 73  9,1|         for nearly four thousand francs in his pocket, stood listening
 74  9,4|      influence of a few thousand francs, I shall consider the business
 75  9,6|          trifle of four thousand francs. "It was one of those opportunities
 76  9,6|        he had paid five thousand francs for them, a mere trifle
 77  9,6|         an advance of a thousand francs whenever he wished to do
 78  9,6|          and sixty-five thousand francs a year." ~Was this only
 79  9,6|          us now fully a thousand francs a month, and three horses
 80  9,6|        certainly twenty thousand francs to-day. This audacity must
 81 10,1|  defrauded him of forty thousand francs in glittering gold. The
 82 10,1|         if it takes ten thousand francs to put them there, and if
 83 10,1|        room. "You gave me twenty francs, m'sieur," he remarked to
 84 10,1|           I paid the driver four francs and five sous, here's the
 85 10,1|    Fortunat. ~What! keep fifteen francs and fifteen sous? Under
 86 10,2|       affair, you shall have ten francs a day; and I'll pay your
 87 10,2|        all. I have eight hundred francs hidden in my room, the fruit
 88 10,2|  possessor of a hundred thousand francs. If a horrible vision haunted
 89 10,3|         the amount - one hundred francs - that I lost to you last
 90 10,3|          he would give me twenty francs as a reward for my honesty.
 91 10,3|       fellow hasn't ten thousand francs a year." ~"You have become
 92 10,4|       for me, I'll give you five francs for yourself,' so my money'
 93 10,4|     elegant ladies who give five francs for YOUR address?" ~"Is
 94 11,3|           he had refused the ten francs a day that M. Fortunat had
 95 11,5|        out of the forty thousand francs you lent him, and which
 96 12,2|         income of seven thousand francs a year. They must have been
 97 12,2|     brought them twenty thousand francs, which proved the nucleus
 98 12,2|          of twenty-five thousand francs, and a year ago she presented
 99 12,2|        with one hundred thousand francs, the yearly income of which
100 12,4|        placed a hundred thousand francs at his disposal; but the
101 13,1|          have a hundred thousand francs to repay you?" ~"But isn'
102 13,2|         several hundred thousand francs a year for the privilege
103 13,2|      than three hundred thousand francs from me, and I was wondering
104 13,2|        won five hundred thousand francs," he said haughtily. ~"That'
105 13,4|    counted on a hundred thousand francs this morning. Nothing! This
106 13,5|       seven or eight millions of francs." ~"I should say ten millions,
107 13,5|         from his ten millions of francs? Not more than five hundred
108 13,5|        are five hundred thousand francs under such circumstances
109 13,5|          than a hundred thousand francs a year, had kept a thieving
110 13,5|          raise the eight hundred francs they owed him, and which
111 13,5|          of one hundred thousand francs?" ~"No, it is only twenty-five
112 13,5|       these twenty-five thousand francs." ~"You?" ~"Yes, I." ~"Before
113 13,5|   obtaining twenty-five thousand francs that day. If he could procure
114 13,6|     asked them to lend him fifty francs for a month, they would
115 13,6|     satisfy you?" ~"One thousand francs. Is it too much?" ~If the
116 13,6| bankruptcy, I asked ten thousand francs the first time, and fifteen
117 13,6|          paid me twenty thousand francs. Didn't he owe them to me?
118 13,6|        you merely for a thousand francs. I should study your position,
119 13,6|   lending you a hundred thousand francs? None whatever. With me
120 13,8|         five-and-twenty thousand francs for the sake of seeing his
121 13,8|        Ah! I'd give ten thousand francs to any one who'd settle
122 13,8|        bank-notes, of a thousand francs each, and he placed them
123 13,8|         for twenty-five thousand francs, payable to my order two
124 13,8|       These twenty-four thousand francs won't take the place of
125 13,8|          me twenty-four thousand francs, why won't you lend me the
126 13,8|   advancing twenty-five thousand francs to a person in your position,
127 15,3|       never suspected that a few francs more or less would be a
128 15,5|          she resumed. "A hundred francs was all that I possessed.
129 15,5|          of shelter. For sixteen francs a month, which I was compelled
130 15,5|         earning the four or five francs a day which I considered
131 15,6|       hundred and fifty thousand francs clear profit, and I received
132 15,6|         the thirty-five thousand francs which you squandered. Now
133 15,6|        me the sum of two million francs on the day you come into
134 15,6|      than eight hundred thousand francs a year. My brother inherited
135 16,2|          than a hundred thousand francs. Even Bourigeau said to
136 16,2|        contained two millions of francs, and the money has disappeared.
137 16,3|          need of twenty thousand francs, I shall be only too happy
138 17,2|        salary of fifteen hundred francs a year, spent a couple of
139 17,2|         willingly give a hundred francs over and above the amount
140 17,3|       hundred and fifty thousand francs on its detective force every
141 18,3|         possess but ten thousand francs in the world - I swear it
142 18,3|    Chalusse's death, two million francs that had been placed in
143 18,5|          her the thirty thousand francs which M. de Coralth needed
144 18,5|          rented for five hundred francs a year! ~Mademoiselle Marguerite
145 19,4|       hundred and fifty thousand francs, which I shall deposit,
146 19,5|        estate of two millions of francs and also of poisoning the
147 20,3|          containing ten thousand francs each. The viscount had not
148 20,3|         resources save the fifty francs a month allowed them by
149 20,3|    repaid him the forty thousand francs he had advanced to M. de