Chapter

 1        I|         income of five thousand francs a year.”~ ~“Yes, that is
 2       II|    hundred pistoles! A thousand francs!—an enormous sum for him
 3       II|         was sixty-nine thousand francs. It was giving the property
 4       II|         at least sixty thousand francs.~ ~How many, under similar
 5       II|         possess eighty thousand francs.’~ ~“I felt a sudden giddiness,
 6       II|   property for seventy thousand francs. If the property is sold
 7       II|        to say, the ten thousand francs remaining, I give to you—
 8       II|        duke the eighty thousand francs; to this amount I will add
 9       II|       speak of the ten thousand francs that were given me, I shall
10      III| sterling, more than six million francs.~ ~Still the marriage was
11       IV|         me to take ten thousand francs, which your aunt gave to
12       IV|       she gave you ten thousand francs? And when?”~ ~“On the same
13       IV|     gave me the eighty thousand francs intended for the purchase
14        V|         to twenty-five thousand francs a year.~ ~This modest dwelling,
15        V|      not claim the ten thousand francs that they owe you?”~ ~“I
16        X|        income of twelve hundred francs, perhaps; but, strictly
17        X|      least one hundred thousand francs. This would, moreover, be
18        X|  exclaimed; “a hundred thousand francs! how you talk! It is all
19        X|        but one hundred thousand francs! Zounds! That is a round
20       XI|       sixty, a hundred thousand francs, even more.~ ~But M. Lacheneur
21      XII|        hundreds of thousands of francs, since he was about to marry
22      XII|     give him a hundred thousand francs, and that will not content
23      XIV|      and eight hundred thousand francs!” said one old viscount
24      XVI|        at least twenty thousand francs.”~ ~Jean hung his head;
25      XVI|      father.~ ~“Twenty thousand francs!” repeated M. Lacheneur. “
26      XVI|        give me the ten thousand francs bequeathed to me by Mademoiselle
27     XVII|      least six hundred thousand francs,” said the duke.~ ~“I shall
28     XVII|        fifteen hundred thousand francs as her marriage portion,”
29      XIX|         at least sixty thousand francs.~ ~“He must be hard to please,
30      XXV|      reward of twenty thousand~ francs.”~ ~This was signed Duc
31      XXV|       he said: “Twenty thousand francs! what a sum! A man could
32     XXXI|        promised twenty thousand francs to the person who should
33     XXXI|       alive.~ ~“Twenty thousand francs,” Chupin muttered gloomily; “
34     XXXI|       reward of twenty thousand francs—two thousand pistoles, you
35     XXXI|       the same; twenty thousand francs! It will be paid in gold.”~ ~
36     XXXI|        be worth twenty thousand francs.~ ~And the man who found
37     XXXI|       reward of twenty thousand francs,” she said.~ ~Lacheneur
38   XXXIII|       blood—the twenty thousand francs which had so fascinated
39   XXXIII|   To-day I have twenty thousand francs, and I am treated as if
40    XXXVI|         at least forty thousand francs.~ ~“But it would, it seems
41    XXXIX|       to three hundred thousand francs.~ ~“Martial de Sairmeuse.”~ ~
42      XLI|         forty to fifty thousand francs.~ ~But jealous of his renown
43     XLII|        with the twenty thousand francs in gold which had been paid
44    XLIII|       of more than two thousand francs, without counting the house,”
45     XLIX| discovering the twenty thousand francs, but the fever for gold
46       LI|      hundred and fifty thousand francs, in bank-notes and coin,
47       LI|         bonus of fifty thousand francs. He shall have it in welcome.”~ ~
48      LII|       reward of twenty thousand francs, which Mme. Blanche imprudently
49      LII|         and by the five hundred francs which she paid in advance.~ ~“
50      LII|  amounted to about ten thousand francs; and so long as she paid
51      LII|         of twenty-four thousand francs; and once, when Mme. Blanche
52      LII|        give him twenty thousand francs, to begin with.~ ~He declared
53     LIII|       had three or four hundred francs——~ ~Mme. Blanche gave her
54     LIII|   Blanche gave her five hundred francs.~ ~“Either her humility
55     LIII|       They needed three hundred francs more before they could commence
56     LIII|     consideration of forty-five francs per month.~ ~From that day
57     LIII|         of one hundred thousand francs in less than six years.~ ~“
58      LIV|        amounted to six thousand francs. The bill was signed “Chelteux.”~ ~
59      LIV|        that said: “Two thousand francs this evening, or I will
60      LIV|    thanks to a pourboire of ten francs, drove to the Rue du Chateau-des-Rentiers
61      LIV|       have one hundred thousand francs.”~ ~Then, drawing a table
62       LV|      hundred and sixty thousand francs.~ ~“I have sufficient confidence