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Perhaps you think then that you will be the only one? They all do it, all those who are extravagant and shrewd. It is a matter of coquetting in these days over a hundred-sou piece! Come, I will wager that Monsieur Montyon would not mince matters especially if he had transferable paper in circulation!" "You know that?" said Vaudrey, turning pale. "Ah! I know many others in like condition!
But they did not even address themselves to Mme Maloir who, never having more than a six-sou omnibus fair upon her, was listening in quite a disinterested manner. At length Zoe went out of the room, remarking that she would go and look in her box, and she brought back a hundred francs in hundred-sou pieces.
"Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is hungry." And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:
Could it have been a goblin?" Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one morning, it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thenardier Marius had put this coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him work on his return.
Now," and his laugh with the hundred-sou piece ring grew louder than ever, "I am really quite surprised not to find the rosette of red ribbon sticking to my flannel waistcoats." Vaudrey left Marie Launay, greatly to her surprise, and listened to Molina's chronicles of the ballet. Ah! if his Excellency had but the time, he would have seen the funniest things.
"Yes." "How many bushels?" "Two good ones." "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for dinner." "The devil, no." "Why?" "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." "Why?" "Because I shall have to buy something, too." "What?" "Something." "How much shall you need?" "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" "Rue Mouffetard."
The traveller seated himself; Thenardier remained standing, and his face assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that child." The stranger gazed intently at him. "What child?" Thenardier continued: "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back your hundred-sou piece.
In spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his hands and rolled noisily on the floor. When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely deserted.
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