Chapter

 1 1|    cheerfully pay a hundred sous to any mathematician who
 2 2|     us reckon it out. Three sous for bread, two for milk,
 3 2|   My lodgings cost me three sous daily; I burnt three sous
 4 2|   sous daily; I burnt three sous more in oil at night; I
 5 2|  the laundress' bill to two sous per day. The money I spent
 6 2|    never cost more than two sous for each day. I had three
 7 2|   only amounted to eighteen sous, so two were left over for
 8 2|    and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as
 9 2| collapse for want of thirty sous. ~"What unrecognized sacrifices
10 2|     had not so much as five sous to give to a shoeblack for
11 2|     sixty tickets at thirty sous each, and settled my debts;