Chapter

 1  2,4|        you owe Van Klopen, but fifty or sixty thousand. However,
 2  3,2|        income of a hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand
 3  3,2|     you at least a hundred and fifty or sixty thousand francs
 4  3,2|    last year, cost me at least fifty thousand." ~ ~Was he boasting,
 5  3,2|     Let us say two hundred and fifty thousand francs for his
 6  3,3|       that I have promised her fifty thousand francs to dry her
 7  5,5|   inconvenience you to lend me fifty louis " ~"Certainly," interrupted
 8  7,4|       you have spent more than fifty thousand francs during the
 9  9,1|    more than the settlement of fifty good ones. The truth of
10 11,1| corpulent man, who looked some fifty years of age, now timidly
11 13,1|       month, all at once or in fifty different instalments, as
12 13,6|         asked them to lend him fifty francs for a month, they
13 14,2|     and an hour when there are fifty guests in her drawing-room
14 14,5|        have taken her for over fifty, so terrible had been the
15 15,4|        leaving him a legacy of fifty thousand dollars - a small
16 15,4|      with them. Unfortunately, fifty thousand dollars could not
17 15,6|      more than one hundred and fifty thousand francs clear profit,
18 17,3|        expending a hundred and fifty thousand francs on its detective
19 19,4|      millions, two hundred and fifty thousand francs, which I
20 20,2|      among you? are there even fifty?" ~ ~
21 20,3|     with no resources save the fifty francs a month allowed them