Chapter

 1        I|        Waterloo; twelve hundred thousand foreign soldiers desecrated
 2        I|         sub-prefecture of eight thousand souls, about four leagues
 3        I|     yield him an income of five thousand francs a year.”~ ~“Yes,
 4        I|      grand gentleman with fifty thousand livres a year. He wears
 5       II|           A hundred pistoles! A thousand francs!—an enormous sum
 6       II|     appraisement was sixty-nine thousand francs. It was giving the
 7       II|        income of at least sixty thousand francs.~ ~How many, under
 8       II|        had heard it discussed a thousand times.~ ~“Ah, well, dear
 9       II|     added:~ ~“‘I possess eighty thousand francs.’~ ~“I felt a sudden
10       II|        our property for seventy thousand francs. If the property
11       II|         that is to say, the ten thousand francs remaining, I give
12       II|        give the duke the eighty thousand francs; to this amount I
13       II|     venture to speak of the ten thousand francs that were given me,
14      III|        of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling, more than
15      III|       use of the twelve hundred thousand soldiers which our friends
16      III|      their duty. Twelve hundred thousand bayonets have far more eloquence
17       IV|        an average income of one thousand louis per year. These revenues,
18       IV|       will allow me to take ten thousand francs, which your aunt
19       IV|            Ah! she gave you ten thousand francs? And when?”~ ~“On
20       IV|     that she gave me the eighty thousand francs intended for the
21        V|      from twenty to twenty-five thousand francs a year.~ ~This modest
22        V|       heard his father repeat a thousand times:~ ~“Calmness and irony
23        V|     Shall you not claim the ten thousand francs that they owe you?”~ ~“
24     VIII|      examining and handling the thousand petty trifles with which
25        X|         of at least one hundred thousand francs. This would, moreover,
26        X|        he exclaimed; “a hundred thousand francs! how you talk! It
27        X|      the duke; “but one hundred thousand francs! Zounds! That is
28       XI|       mention— sixty, a hundred thousand francs, even more.~ ~But
29      XII|      say—you give him a hundred thousand francs, and that will not
30      XIV|         seven and eight hundred thousand francs!” said one old viscount
31      XVI|         you owe at least twenty thousand francs.”~ ~Jean hung his
32      XVI|    feared his father.~ ~“Twenty thousand francs!” repeated M. Lacheneur. “
33      XVI|       they will give me the ten thousand francs bequeathed to me
34     XVII|         of at least six hundred thousand francs,” said the duke.~ ~“
35     XVII|        at least fifteen hundred thousand francs as her marriage portion,”
36      XIX|         total of at least sixty thousand francs.~ ~“He must be hard
37       XX|        do I know, Monsieur? Two thousand, perhaps—perhaps ten thousand.”~ ~“
38       XX|   thousand, perhaps—perhaps ten thousand.”~ ~“All the towns-people
39       XX|         strong gates, and three thousand soldiers at our command.
40      XXI|      left one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers within a day’s
41     XXII|    rendezvous?”~ ~“At least two thousand.”~ ~“And what is their mood?”~ ~“
42     XXII|      These peasants, nearly two thousand in number, were indignant
43     XXII|      shout of approval from two thousand throats replied:~ ~“Forward!”~ ~
44    XXIII| Reinforcements are at hand; two thousand men are following me!”~ ~
45    XXIII|            He promised them two thousand men; had he promised them
46    XXIII|        had he promised them ten thousand, twenty thousand—an army
47    XXIII|       them ten thousand, twenty thousand—an army and cannon, it would
48      XXV|      receive a reward of twenty thousand~ francs.”~ ~This was signed
49      XXV|      his eyes, he said: “Twenty thousand francs! what a sum! A man
50     XXVI|         nightfall.~ ~Beset by a thousand fears, he had taken the
51    XXVII|       among more than a hundred thousand souls, two pure and innocent
52     XXIX|         d’Escorval his title—“a thousand times more than I have to
53      XXX|    would be difficult. It was a thousand times more so than he had
54     XXXI|        which he promised twenty thousand francs to the person who
55     XXXI|        dead or alive.~ ~“Twenty thousand francs,” Chupin muttered
56     XXXI|         give a reward of twenty thousand francs—two thousand pistoles,
57     XXXI|      twenty thousand francs—two thousand pistoles, you understand—
58     XXXI|        will be the same; twenty thousand francs! It will be paid
59     XXXI|     would still be worth twenty thousand francs.~ ~And the man who
60     XXXI|         do each of you desire a thousand pistoles? I am Lacheneur.”~ ~
61     XXXI|      promise a reward of twenty thousand francs,” she said.~ ~Lacheneur
62   XXXIII|    Lacheneur’s blood—the twenty thousand francs which had so fascinated
63   XXXIII|      same. To-day I have twenty thousand francs, and I am treated
64     XXXV|         litter.~ ~Among the two thousand peasants who believed that
65    XXXVI|       sell~ ~for at least forty thousand francs.~ ~“But it would,
66    XXXIX|        amounts to three hundred thousand francs.~ ~“Martial de Sairmeuse.”~ ~
67      XLI|       worth from forty to fifty thousand francs.~ ~But jealous of
68     XLII|         he done with the twenty thousand francs in gold which had
69    XLIII|         income of more than two thousand francs, without counting
70     XLIX|       in discovering the twenty thousand francs, but the fever for
71       LI|         CHAPTER LI~ ~Beset by a thousand fears and anxieties, Blanche
72       LI|     about two hundred and fifty thousand francs, in bank-notes and
73       LI|        demands a bonus of fifty thousand francs. He shall have it
74      LII|         by the reward of twenty thousand francs, which Mme. Blanche
75      LII|   usually amounted to about ten thousand francs; and so long as she
76      LII|       an annuity of twenty-four thousand francs; and once, when Mme.
77      LII|    compelled to give him twenty thousand francs, to begin with.~ ~
78     LIII|        a fortune of one hundred thousand francs in less than six
79      LIV|         upon his course. From a thousand schemes for revenge he had
80      LIV|       The total amounted to six thousand francs. The bill was signed “
81      LIV| miserable hand, that said: “Two thousand francs this evening, or
82      LIV|      you shall have one hundred thousand francs.”~ ~Then, drawing
83       LV|     have two~ hundred and sixty thousand francs.~ ~“I have sufficient