Chapter

  1  2,2|    Naturally! Total, twenty-seven thousand francs!" ~"Excuse me! Twenty-seven
  2  2,2|           Excuse me! Twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-three
  3  2,2|              Call it twenty-eight thousand francs then. Ah, well, M.
  4  2,2|       allow Madame Trigault eight thousand francs a month for her toilette -
  5  2,2|       when I paid a bill of forty thousand francs? That I would not
  6  2,3|         this bill of twenty-eight thousand francs. For what was this
  7  2,3|         of seven or eight hundred thousand francs a year, can't go
  8  2,4|         Van Klopen's twenty-eight thousand francs before this evening.
  9  2,4|          your diamonds for thirty thousand francs - I authorize you
 10  2,4|     because you already owe three thousand francs to one of my coachmen;
 11  2,4|            It is not twenty-seven thousand francs you owe Van Klopen,
 12  2,4|        Klopen, but fifty or sixty thousand. However, he is careful
 13  2,4|          you require twenty-eight thousand francs before to-night,
 14  2,5|       gold-seekers, was braving a thousand dangers in California, so
 15  2,5|        with me! I had two hundred thousand francs! I said to you as
 16  2,5|   afterward. I have repeated it a thousand times since." ~The baron
 17  2,5|           to ask me for a hundred thousand francs, and when I refused
 18  2,5|        unfortunate woman who is a thousand times better than yourself."
 19  3,2|          and fifty or two hundred thousand francs," said he; "that
 20  3,2|          I don't get eight or ten thousand louis for the lot. Domingo
 21  3,2|          is worth more than forty thousand francs." ~ ~To talk of selling -
 22  3,2|        hundred and fifty or sixty thousand francs a year," observed
 23  3,2|    declares that the twenty-three thousand francs I won last year,
 24  3,2|            cost me at least fifty thousand." ~ ~Was he boasting, or
 25  3,2|         say two hundred and fifty thousand francs for his stable; forty
 26  3,2|      francs for his stable; forty thousand francs for Ninette Simplon;
 27  3,2|           Ninette Simplon; eighty thousand for his household expenses,
 28  3,2|     expenses, and at least thirty thousand for personal matters, travelling,
 29  3,2|           four hundred and thirty thousand francs a year. Does his
 30  3,3|        has at least three hundred thousand francs safely invested;
 31  3,3|           have promised her fifty thousand francs to dry her tears
 32  3,3|           M. de Chalusse, after a thousand vain attempts, at last succeeded
 33  4,1|         of at least eight hundred thousand francs a year, he received
 34  4,1|           me have the use of five thousand louis for a year.'" ~The
 35  4,1|         He allowed his wife eight thousand francs a month, almost one
 36  4,1|         month, almost one hundred thousand francs a year, merely for
 37  4,2|           certain that my hundred thousand francs will be lost forever
 38  4,2|        desire to borrow a hundred thousand francs of me proves it;
 39  5,1|      Domingo's defeat cost me two thousand louis!'" M. de Valorsay
 40  5,1|     salary - something like eight thousand francs a year - on the plea
 41  5,3|           year, at a cost of five thousand francs, he beguiled a poor
 42  5,3|        instructed to pay you five thousand francs quarterly. Here is
 43  5,3|          lay upon the table, five thousand francs in glittering gold. ~
 44  5,3|         what remained of the five thousand francs that had been given
 45  5,4|                          4~Twenty thousand francs a year is what one
 46  5,4|         wealth or poverty. Twenty thousand francs a year represents
 47  5,4|         question! Every evening a thousand gorgeously apparelled gentlemen,
 48  5,4|         sent him a cheque for one thousand francs - a mere drop in
 49  5,4|            Patterson sent him two thousand francs, and an interminable
 50  5,5|     procuring the thirty or forty thousand francs a year that were
 51  5,5|           but two bank-notes of a thousand francs, and handed them
 52  5,6|     netting at least five hundred thousand francs - a fortune - a competency,
 53  6,2|       other had lost five hundred thousand francs; and, in order to
 54  6,2|      about two hundred and eighty thousand francs. ~"I only returned
 55  6,3|        probably cost me a hundred thousand francs to do so, but I shall
 56  6,3|  furniture worth? About a hundred thousand francs, isn't it? Very well,
 57  6,3|           the amount of a hundred thousand francs. On the day these
 58  6,5|       Thanks, my friend, thanks a thousand times; but it will not be
 59  6,5|         of two hundred and eighty thousand francs." He settled his
 60  7,1|        paltry allowance of twenty thousand francs! No more debts, no
 61  7,4|        have spent more than fifty thousand francs during the past two
 62  7,5|         an income of five hundred thousand francs,' and he'll say no
 63  7,5|          regret the paltry twenty thousand francs a year formerly given
 64  8,4|     income of five or six hundred thousand francs a year! Still I know
 65  8,4|           not less than a hundred thousand francs a year - and that
 66  9,1|        had a bill for nearly four thousand francs in his pocket, stood
 67  9,1|        debt delights a merchant a thousand times more than the settlement
 68  9,2|        and sham luxury which is a thousand times worse than an existence
 69  9,2|         in her sweetest voice: "A thousand thanks, my child! Ah! this
 70  9,4|      seductive influence of a few thousand francs, I shall consider
 71  9,6|         of the vilest wretches? A thousand frightful memories of the
 72  9,6|           the mere trifle of four thousand francs. "It was one of those
 73  9,6| spendthrift, and he had paid five thousand francs for them, a mere
 74  9,6|          again at an advance of a thousand francs whenever he wished
 75  9,6|      three hundred and sixty-five thousand francs a year." ~Was this
 76  9,6|           it costs us now fully a thousand francs a month, and three
 77  9,6|       have spent certainly twenty thousand francs to-day. This audacity
 78 10,1|        had defrauded him of forty thousand francs in glittering gold.
 79 10,1|         soon. And if it takes ten thousand francs to put them there,
 80 10,1|     advance - well, at least five thousand - without charging them
 81 10,2|        the possessor of a hundred thousand francs. If a horrible vision
 82 10,3|          when a fellow hasn't ten thousand francs a year." ~"You have
 83 11,1|          have less than a hundred thousand a year if she takes up her
 84 11,5|     cheating you out of the forty thousand francs you lent him, and
 85 11,5|          he was to pay you eighty thousand for." ~M. Fortunat cast
 86 12,1|        sake, and who is braving a thousand dangers to win a fortune
 87 12,2|          of their income of seven thousand francs a year. They must
 88 12,2|           she brought them twenty thousand francs, which proved the
 89 12,2|        her the sum of twenty-five thousand francs, and a year ago she
 90 12,2|      institution with one hundred thousand francs, the yearly income
 91 12,4|          who had placed a hundred thousand francs at his disposal;
 92 13,1|          horses, worth at least a thousand louis, and harnessed to
 93 13,1|       Shall I ever have a hundred thousand francs to repay you?" ~"
 94 13,2|         of paying several hundred thousand francs a year for the privilege
 95 13,2|           more than three hundred thousand francs from me, and I was
 96 13,2|           us had won five hundred thousand francs," he said haughtily. ~"
 97 13,4|            I counted on a hundred thousand francs this morning. Nothing!
 98 13,5|        Not more than five hundred thousand. A very handsome fortune,
 99 13,5|      style. What are five hundred thousand francs under such circumstances
100 13,5|     income of more than a hundred thousand francs a year, had kept
101 13,5|             A debt of one hundred thousand francs?" ~"No, it is only
102 13,5|            it is only twenty-five thousand." ~"Is it possible that
103 13,5|      obtain you these twenty-five thousand francs." ~"You?" ~"Yes,
104 13,5|          in obtaining twenty-five thousand francs that day. If he could
105 13,6|          will satisfy you?" ~"One thousand francs. Is it too much?" ~
106 13,6|           bankruptcy, I asked ten thousand francs the first time, and
107 13,6|           first time, and fifteen thousand the second. Was that an
108 13,6|         wedding he paid me twenty thousand francs. Didn't he owe them
109 13,6|          not ask you merely for a thousand francs. I should study your
110 13,6|          in lending you a hundred thousand francs? None whatever. With
111 13,8|           costing five-and-twenty thousand francs for the sake of seeing
112 13,8|           Paris. Ah! I'd give ten thousand francs to any one who'd
113 13,8|      twenty-four bank-notes, of a thousand francs each, and he placed
114 13,8|       sign a note for twenty-five thousand francs, payable to my order
115 13,8|          great. These twenty-four thousand francs won't take the place
116 13,8|          the place of the hundred thousand which Baron Trigault promised
117 13,8|          just lent me twenty-four thousand francs, why won't you lend
118 13,8|          by advancing twenty-five thousand francs to a person in your
119 14,2|         times, a hundred times, a thousand times, rather than have
120 14,4|          think that there are ten thousand in Paris built upon the
121 15,4|     leaving him a legacy of fifty thousand dollars - a small fortune.
122 15,4|    married a wife worth a hundred thousand dollars, and then I should
123 15,4|        them. Unfortunately, fifty thousand dollars could not last long
124 15,4|        the Marquis de Valorsay? A thousand questions rose to his lips,
125 15,6|         for himself. Ah! he was a thousand times right, as events have
126 15,6|        than one hundred and fifty thousand francs clear profit, and
127 15,6|          my share the thirty-five thousand francs which you squandered.
128 15,6|           more than eight hundred thousand francs a year. My brother
129 16,2|         worth more than a hundred thousand francs. Even Bourigeau said
130 16,3|           you have need of twenty thousand francs, I shall be only
131 17,2|           year, spent a couple of thousand, and utilized his wits in
132 17,3|     expending a hundred and fifty thousand francs on its detective
133 18,1|           decisive moment? "No, a thousand times no!" she said to herself
134 18,3|  exaggerating - I possess but ten thousand francs in the world - I
135 18,5|     enough to give her the thirty thousand francs which M. de Coralth
136 19,4|   millions, two hundred and fifty thousand francs, which I shall deposit,
137 20,3|           packages containing ten thousand francs each. The viscount
138 20,3|          who repaid him the forty thousand francs he had advanced to