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Our way lay along the charming bay of the Bras d'Or, over the sprawling bridge of the Big Baddeck, a black, sedgy, lonesome stream, to Middle River, which debouches out of a scraggy country into a bayou with ragged shores, about which the Indians have encampments, and in which are the skeleton stakes of fish-weirs. Saturday night we had seen trout jumping in the still water above the bridge.
The pineapple was an English hothouse product, the grapes were grown by a costly process under glass in Belgium. As for the peaches, Potin had sent those delicately blushing marvels, and the charge for this would be "not less than a louis apiece, sir a louis d'or which, as you no doubt know, is about four dollars of Uncle Sam's money."
He then divided his capital into three shares of four hundred thousand francs each, which he gave to three of his children, the Cocon d'Or, given to his eldest daughter on her marriage, being the equivalent of a fourth share.
"In that case," said Ste. Marie, "you might ask the lady to say one little extra prayer for the pebble I threw at the birds just now. Hein?" He withdrew from his pocket the last two louis d'or, and Michel took them in a trembling hand. There remained but the note of fifty francs and some silver. "The prayer shall be said, Monsieur," declared the gardener. "It shall be said.
A lad of about fifteen, who was known in Granpere as the waiter at the Lion d'Or, looked after the two strangers and the young men, and Marie Bromar, who herself had arranged the board, stood at the top of the room, by a second table, and dispensed the soup.
To show his state of mind I quote a portion of another letter to Uhlig, dated September, 1850, after the production of Lohengrin at Weimar "Liszt spoke to me previously about an honorarium of thirty louis d'or for Lohengrin instead of which I had altogether only 130 thalers.
Madame had sunk down on a bench by the door. Monte stared up the road and down the road. There was no other house in sight. "You could not find a bed for madame even for ten louis d'or?" "Not for a thousand, monsieur. If there are no beds, there are no beds." Yet there was room enough thereabouts. Behind the inn an olive orchard extended up a gentle incline to a stone wall.
Eighty thousand louis d'or in ready money; a service of gold plate of twenty covers, which formerly belonged to the Kings of France; two small boxes full of diamonds and brilliants, the intrinsic worth of which was estimated at forty-eight millions of livres and a great number of jewels; among others, the crown diamond, called here the Regents', and in your country the Pitt Diamond, fell, with other riches, into the hands of the captors.
This sum, and one hundred louis d'or besides, was immediately given him; and within three months, for a large sum in addition to those advanced, this precious relic was in Madame Letitia's possession.
One day, when she went to pere Mascart, who was constantly complaining that he had no tobacco, she found him very rich, with a shining new louis d'or on his table.
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