Chapter

 1 1|     is expending two thousand crowns sat on their host. His eyes
 2 2|      cost, I estimated, fifty crowns. Was it not the artless
 3 2| trembling fingers - a hundred crowns! The joys of my escapade
 4 2| dreams upon a pedestal, weave crowns for his head, and have complaisant
 5 2|    aunt's name, for a hundred crowns a volume.' ~" 'It's a bargain,'
 6 2|      He shall only have fifty crowns on account, and then I shall
 7 2|       you are! Take the fifty crowns in the first instance, and
 8 2|     six sermons for a hundred crowns!' ~" 'After all,' I said,
 9 2|  signed he paid me down fifty crowns, and the three of us breakfasted
10 2|     can easily lend you a few crowns meanwhile.' ~" 'Oh, Pauline!'
11 2|    take it!' ~"She laid three crowns upon the table, and tried
12 3|     the annuity of a thousand crowns that he is to come into
13 3|      an annuity of a thousand crowns rather than a murderous