Chapter

 1 1 |     there was not one of those thousand little things so necessary
 2 2 |   diamonds, worth four to five thousand francs each. How it was
 3 9 |        cost him at least three thousand francs, I am sure." ~And
 4 10|     blood and spends a hundred thousand francs a year. That is all
 5 10|      that I spend six or seven thousand francs a month, and that
 6 11|      can not repeat to you the thousand thoughts that rose from
 7 11|      do?" ~"He has twenty-five thousand francs a year." ~"Ah, indeed!
 8 11|        me " ~"How much?" ~"Six thousand." ~"Have you got it?" ~"
 9 11|        took the six notes of a thousand francs. ~"It was quite time,"
10 12|      like usurers, who cheat a thousand, and think they have bought
11 13|     spends more than a hundred thousand francs a year; she has heaps
12 13|      worth to her at least ten thousand francs a year. Marguerite
13 13|       with your seven or eight thousand francs a year, what could
14 13|        fortune of five hundred thousand francs a year is, in France,
15 13|      dear friend, five hundred thousand francs a year would still
16 13|       round, with five hundred thousand francs a year he can not
17 13|       more than forty or fifty thousand francs in the year, and
18 13|      him for more than seventy thousand francs a year; and I am
19 13|        men of twenty or thirty thousand francs a year at Paris,
20 13|        after leaving a hundred thousand francs of debt in Paris.
21 15|       So, if I had two hundred thousand francs a year, and if I
22 15| Marguerite Gautier, I am forty thousand francs in debt, I have not
23 15|     own, and I spend a hundred thousand francs a year. Your question
24 15|    said to you, 'I want twenty thousand francs'; you were in love
25 15|    Prudence brought me the six thousand francs that I had asked
26 16|   position. ~It is worth forty thousand francs a year, and during
27 16|      mother died, she left six thousand francs a year, which he
28 16|       annual allowance of five thousand francs, assuring me that
29 16|    assuring me that with eight thousand francs a year I might live
30 16|     practically gave me twelve thousand francs a year, and, in addition,
31 16|        a serious expense those thousand and one distractions which
32 16|     which came to two or three thousand francs a month, which reduced
33 16|       by borrowing five or six thousand francs on my little capital,
34 16|      they have not two hundred thousand francs a year. ~I need not
35 16|        means of satisfying the thousand caprices of Marguerite.
36 16|      in possession of some ten thousand francs, which seemed to
37 16|      empty, and to let for two thousand francs. ~"Would you be happy
38 17|        asking for a note for a thousand francs, professedly on behalf
39 17|      in possession of some ten thousand francs, without reckoning
40 18|        much in debt?" ~"Thirty thousand francs, or thereabouts.
41 18|    part payment out of the few thousand francs that I got from you;
42 18|    unless she can raise thirty thousand francs." ~"All right, I
43 18|        one doesn't find thirty thousand francs from one day to another.
44 18|      and give her four or five thousand francs a month. He has two
45 18|      month. He has two hundred thousand a year. It would be a position
46 18|        I have told you: thirty thousand francs." ~"And when does
47 19|      now you have eight or ten thousand francs a year, on which
48 19|     this alone I will make two thousand francs a year. We will take
49 19|        There remained the five thousand francs a year from my father;
50 19|       from a mortgage of sixty thousand francs on a house that I
51 19|        hand over to her twenty thousand francs, in return for the
52 19|       would have gained thirty thousand francs out of his client. ~
53 20|    your fortune, for the sixty thousand francs which come to you
54 23|       short he gave her twenty thousand francs, but he has had his
55 24|       me in return for the six thousand francs which I left with
56 26|      he came to bring me three thousand francs from your father.
57 27|     she extracted a note for a thousand francs from Armand, who