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* By a report of Cambon's at this time, it appears the expences of France in 1792 were eighteen millions sterling in 1793, near ninety millions and, in the spring of 1794, twelve and a half millions per month! The church bells, we learn from the same authority, cost in coinage, and the purchase of copper to mix with the metal, five or six millions of livres more than they produced as money.
He was all right, of course, but I can't help feeling a bit puzzled. Fancy his taking a craze for my studies of Paris! I remember that they gathered dust for months in old Cambon's window, until one day I missed them. It's a funny thing about that brown mark which came off on his handkerchief after he wiped his mustache.
"No, there's no use trying on anything else, I have an appointment at Cambon's." Cambon was Dinard's hated and wholly incompetent rival; and until this illuminating instant Madame had never suspected that her particular Mrs. Pletheridge had ever entered the high white doors of Cambon's establishment. "But, surely, we have something else. There is a lovely Doucet model in white and silver "
* By a report of Cambon's at this time, it appears the expences of France in 1792 were eighteen millions sterling in 1793, near ninety millions and, in the spring of 1794, twelve and a half millions per month! The church bells, we learn from the same authority, cost in coinage, and the purchase of copper to mix with the metal, five or six millions of livres more than they produced as money.
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