Chapter

 1  3,1|     domestic life. But it was a mere flash of energy. The terrible
 2  3,2|       me a little. But it was a mere trifle. She has quite recovered
 3  3,2|       me." ~ ~This answer was a mere trifle, but it somewhat
 4  3,3|         herself penniless?" ~"A mere chance - a fatality. M.
 5  3,4|       Nothing! It is nothing. A mere trifle! It will be over
 6  5,4|         one thousand francs - a mere drop in the bucket. M. Wilkie
 7  5,6|         up Wilkie's hat? Was it mere chance? Certainly not. He
 8  6,5|       tried to construe them as mere proofs of her son's honesty
 9  6,5| declared that her illness was a mere trifle, but prescribed rest
10  7,3|           but tell me it is not mere pity that leads you to make
11  7,6|   pictured himself reduced to a mere pittance, and held in check
12  7,7|   better foundation for it than mere conjecture. It was to some
13  9,6|         she had secured for the mere trifle of four thousand
14  9,6|     thousand francs for them, a mere trifle for such animals.
15 10,1|         others, and a couple of mere amateurs had outgeneraled
16 12,2|        treated these insults as mere nonsense; and afterward
17 13,8|       against him? If it were a mere question of money I should
18 14,3|         a few hours before. The mere thought of being presented
19 15,1|       in pleasure to think of a mere child. So I lived quite
20 15,1|    Comte de Commarin. How he, a mere adventurer, had succeeded
21 15,2|        is all-powerful - I am a mere nobody - we should be crushed
22 16,2|    remarked, gravely: "That's a mere nothing. I suspect something
23 16,4|     replied, "but all this is a mere nothing. Return home at
24 17,2|         and everything else was mere conjecture. Still Mademoiselle