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A cold chill ran down her back. "I have told you all I know," she said. She saw that she was at the tiger's mercy. "We attorneys are accustomed to treachery. Just think carefully over your position; it is superb. If you follow my advice point by point, you will have thirty or forty thousand francs. But there is a reverse side to this beautiful medal.
But I have so much friendship, so much esteem and respect for Brigard that everything that touches him affects me. And how could it be otherwise when one knows his value, and what a man he is? This life of mediocrity that he lives, in order to be free, is it not admirable? What a beautiful example!" "Not every one can follow it." "You think that one cannot be contented with ten francs a day?"
We are fighting not for a few milliard francs and a disaffected province, but for priceless spoils and European hegemony. Moreover, Belgium, which we possess and mean to keep, is a greater prize than the temporary occupation of Paris. Besides, postponement is not abandonment. Whether we take the French capital one month or another is but a detail.
If my upholsterer wished to be paid I could have it arranged, but that was not his intention. He wishes to take his furniture that is not worn out, and to keep the money that he has received. If I do not pay these three thousand francs in a few days I shall be turned into the street.
The rogue bears a grudge against me as it is, for tying his hands so far as you are concerned; but you have ability, and I don't choose that you shall be subjected to the whims of the editor. You might let me have a couple of sheets every month for my review, and I will pay you two hundred francs.
The bridal dress alone, a blaze of blue silk and lace and gold embroidery, costs between six hundred and a thousand francs. Altogether, Morano is a rich place, despite its sordid appearance; it is also celebrated as the birthplace of various learned men.
"I'll give twenty-five francs to any one who brings it to me," he concluded. The gunner saluted and continued to chop wood. "Rather a big reward!" I remarked as we walked on. "Do you think twenty-five too much? Shall I make it fifteen?" "You've committed yourself now," I answered solemnly.
As for his uncle, who formerly had sent him the celebrated portrait as a memento, Bouvard did not even know his residence, and expected nothing more from him. Fifteen hundred francs a year and his salary as copying-clerk enabled him every evening to take a nap at a coffee-house. Thus their meeting had the importance of an adventure. They were at once drawn together by secret fibres.
Five thousand francs," cried he, throwing the billet de banque carelessly before him, while he turned to resume what he was saying to me. "Were I in action now, I 'd win the bâton de maréchal. I feel it; there's an innate sense of luck when it means to be steady."
Cosse, once received as Duc de Brissac, I no longer feared to push forward the action I had commenced for the recovery of the two hundred thousand francs due to me, and which I had interrupted only on his account.
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