Chapter

 1  2,2|        worked like a negro for twenty years merely for the purpose
 2  2,4|       fight a duel then? After twenty years has the idea of ridding
 3  2,5|       since I was blind - full twenty years! Nothing concerning
 4  3,3|        the heart of a youth of twenty beating in my breast - a
 5  5,2|        the secret. He had only twenty hours longer to wait!" To-morrow!
 6  5,2|      and now, after a lapse of twenty years, he pronounced it
 7  5,3|  returned to Paris he was just twenty years old, and the very
 8  5,4|                              4~Twenty thousand francs a year is
 9  5,4|        it - wealth or poverty. Twenty thousand francs a year represents
10  5,4|        House of Lords, who was twenty times a millionaire. And
11  5,6|        was a young girl, about twenty, she fled from her paternal
12  6,1|    which she had not heard for twenty years, and which she had
13  6,1|      playing the gentleman for twenty years with Lia d'Argeles'
14  6,3| impulses sufficiently to offer twenty sous for one of the dainty
15  7,1|       to a paltry allowance of twenty thousand francs! No more
16  7,3|    Take care! Your son will be twenty some day, and you will have
17  7,5|      which has been whetted by twenty years' waiting. You may
18  7,5|     you will regret the paltry twenty thousand francs a year formerly
19  7,7|        ridiculous when we were twenty. We have all caused our
20  8,1|  Marguerite, although scarcely twenty, displayed when she left
21  8,4|        sure of it, and you are twenty! Fortunately, I am here.
22  9,5|   However, at the end of about twenty minutes, the photographer
23  9,6|   Fondege have spent certainly twenty thousand francs to-day.
24 10,1| entered the room. "You gave me twenty francs, m'sieur," he remarked
25 10,3|        likely he would give me twenty francs as a reward for my
26 10,5|        bottle at a distance of twenty paces. He also displayed
27 10,6|      However, when he was some twenty yards from the house he
28 11,3|        evening he declined the twenty sous proffered him by Madame
29 11,3|   Flandres, he muttered: "Take twenty sous from that poor creature,
30 12,2|       the day she brought them twenty thousand francs, which proved
31 13,6|   after the wedding he paid me twenty thousand francs. Didn't
32 15,2|   agony of terror she had felt twenty years before; and this lent
33 15,5|  scarcely succeeded in earning twenty sous a day. And it was not
34 16,3|    doctor, if you have need of twenty thousand francs, I shall
35 20,1|       himself therein at once. Twenty horses neighed and stamped
36 20,1| possession of a property worth twenty millions!" they became serious,