Chapter

 1 2 |     worth four to five thousand francs each. How it was that her
 2 3 |         had sold her for 10,000 francs, and for which she had paid,
 3 3 |  written on the first page. Ten francs." ~"Twelve," said a voice
 4 3 |        been in paying a hundred francs for a book which I could
 5 4 |        It had produced 3.50,000 francs. The creditors divided among
 6 4 |        she had inherited 50,000 francs. The girl had not seen her
 7 4 |            You gave one hundred francs." ~"True," I said, embarrassed
 8 9 |         at least three thousand francs, I am sure." ~And Mme. Duvernoy
 9 10|       spends a hundred thousand francs a year. That is all very
10 10|     spend six or seven thousand francs a month, and that I could
11 11|        has twenty-five thousand francs a year." ~"Ah, indeed! Well,
12 11|         six notes of a thousand francs. ~"It was quite time," she
13 11|        me three or four hundred francs, you would do me a real
14 13|         than a hundred thousand francs a year; she has heaps of
15 13|       her at least ten thousand francs a year. Marguerite is very
16 13|         seven or eight thousand francs a year, what could you do
17 13|        of five hundred thousand francs a year is, in France, an
18 13|   friend, five hundred thousand francs a year would still be too
19 13|      with five hundred thousand francs a year he can not give a
20 13|         forty or fifty thousand francs in the year, and that is
21 13|      more than seventy thousand francs a year; and I am sure that
22 13|       twenty or thirty thousand francs a year at Paris, that is
23 13|      leaving a hundred thousand francs of debt in Paris. Do you
24 15|        had two hundred thousand francs a year, and if I were your
25 15|    Gautier, I am forty thousand francs in debt, I have not a penny
26 15|        spend a hundred thousand francs a year. Your question becomes
27 15|          I want twenty thousand francs'; you were in love with
28 15|     brought me the six thousand francs that I had asked her to
29 15|       she borrowed five hundred francs, which she will never pay
30 16|         is worth forty thousand francs a year, and during the ten
31 16|     died, she left six thousand francs a year, which he divided
32 16|      allowance of five thousand francs, assuring me that with eight
33 16|        that with eight thousand francs a year I might live very
34 16|         gave me twelve thousand francs a year, and, in addition,
35 16|        to two or three thousand francs a month, which reduced my
36 16|  borrowing five or six thousand francs on my little capital, and
37 16|        not two hundred thousand francs a year. ~I need not tell
38 16| possession of some ten thousand francs, which seemed to me an inexhaustible
39 16|         to let for two thousand francs. ~"Would you be happy here?"
40 17|          and bed-room, at sixty francs a month; the whole place
41 17|       for a note for a thousand francs, professedly on behalf of
42 17| possession of some ten thousand francs, without reckoning my allowance.
43 18|        debt?" ~"Thirty thousand francs, or thereabouts. Ah, my
44 18|         out of the few thousand francs that I got from you; then
45 18|       can raise thirty thousand francs." ~"All right, I will provide
46 18|    doesn't find thirty thousand francs from one day to another.
47 18|       her four or five thousand francs a month. He has two hundred
48 18|       told you: thirty thousand francs." ~"And when does she require
49 19|      have eight or ten thousand francs a year, on which we should
50 19|        I will make two thousand francs a year. We will take a nice
51 19|      remained the five thousand francs a year from my father; and,
52 19|      mortgage of sixty thousand francs on a house that I had never
53 19|         seven hundred and fifty francs in return for my receipt. ~
54 19|     over to her twenty thousand francs, in return for the whole
55 19|     have gained thirty thousand francs out of his client. ~We went
56 20|          for the sixty thousand francs which come to you from your
57 23|        gave her twenty thousand francs, but he has had his way
58 24|     return for the six thousand francs which I left with her. And
59 26|         bring me three thousand francs from your father. I wanted
60 27| extracted a note for a thousand francs from Armand, who did not