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The boatman, however, indignantly rejected each successive proposal, and, being paid at last, retired with a decrescendo of oaths. "Tiens!" said Müller, reflectively. "We have but one franc left. One franc, two sous, and a centime. Vive la France!" "And you have actually asked that wretched old woman and her niece to dinner!"
Men who know to the centime each fluctuation of the wheat-market have no eye for the tawny beauty of a whole field of the precious product fluctuating to a breeze. Women stayed by steel and convention into the mold of form love the soft faces of flowers looking up at them from expensive corsages, but care not for their nativity.
"I would give my fortune," resumed he "to avoid a trial every centime of it, though it doesn't amount to much. But how can we secure this wretch Tremorel from a conviction? What subterfuge shall we invent? You alone, my friend, can advise me in the frightful extremity to which you see me reduced, and aid me to accomplish what I wish. If there is any way in the world, you will find it and save me "
Then! how good these things would be, shared between him and the princess, and, of course, the little brother and the good dog, and eaten in that same faubourg, where the air must be a little better, purer than in Paris proper. If only he had the necessary sous? Alas! he only possessed one centime, and that would buy no dainties worth mentioning.
By the regular shipyard charges it ought not to have been a centime over twenty-five hundred francs-" "If you take the word of those alongshore sharks against mine the other began thickly. "Save yourself the trouble of further lying," Duncan went on coldly. "I looked it up. I got Flaubin before the Governor himself, and the old rascal confessed to sixteen hundred overcharge.
'Leven francs, signor," and he opened the dirty fingers of his left hand twice, and held up a thumb that looked as if it hadn't been washed since he was born. "Seven," I firmly replied. "Not a centime more. Drive on!" "Ze signor will pay 'leven francs," he fiercely persisted, "seven for ze driver and four for ze cicerone, ze guide." "What guide? I've had no guide." "Me, signor. I am ze guide.
Then, the money! the immense sums which this strange creature, Morgana Royal, had entrusted to him! and with it all, the keen, business aptitude she had displayed, knowing to a centime how much she had spent, though there seemed no limit to how much she yet intended to spend!
That is, they proclaimed in loud tones the prodigies that were to be disclosed and that the performance was about to begin; to the end that, in a little while, coppers and centime pieces jingled merrily in Philidor's coat pocket, the benches were filled and a crowd two deep stood behind. This augured well. Cleofonte beamed as he counted noses, and the performance began.
Pavlovitch explained that somehow four groschen worked out to more than four piastres; but we left her to calculate what fractions of a centime she had gained. Our old innkeeper looked very truculent when we entered. "Are you going to lunch here?" "No; we left word." "Then you can't stay here." We pointed out that her meals were bad and very dear.
He would arrange things in such a way that you would never get a centime of his fortune." Maxence had never thought of that. "Therefore," the young girl went on gayly, "though there is as yet no question of marriage, learn to secure your independence; that is, the means of living. And to that effect let us work." It was from that moment, that Mme.
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