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But so long as I remain Del Ferice's slave, we shall not fail. Do you know that this great and successful firm is carried on systematically without a centime of profit to the partners, and with the constant threat of a disgraceful failure, used to force me on?
How does it affect the condition of James B.? How does it affect the national labour? James B. pays every centime of his five francs to M. Prohibant, and therefore is deprived of the pleasure of a book, or of some other thing of equal value. He loses five francs.
"'That is true, replied M. Renon, 'but I ought to tell you that Alexander Dumas's article, Filles, Lorettes et Courtisanes, also ran to four pages, yet we have not given him a centime more than we have given you. "Balzac started and turned pale. It is evident that he must have been in great financial need before he would have come to make such a request.
Much vexed that circumstances should be so unpropitious, Madame Theodore nevertheless ventured to ask for the loan of twenty sons; and this brought her sister's despair and confusion to a climax. "I really haven't a centime in the house," said she, "just now I borrowed ten sous for the children from the servant. I had to get ten francs from the Mont de Piete on a little ring the other day.
In these times of strictest economy, it would perhaps be interesting to go deeper into the ways of those untiring thrifty ants who seem to know how "To cut a centime in four" and extract the quintessence from a bone.
As it was impossible to squeeze more taxes out of the ragged peasants, it was necessary to get the necessary funds from the nobility and clergy who had never paid a centime. This made Turgot the best hated man at the court of Versailles.
But Monferrand interrupted his colleague in a clear trenchant voice: "He never handed me a centime." The other looked at him in astonishment, but could only see his big, rough head, whose features were steeped in shadow: "Ah! But I thought you had business relations with him, and knew him particularly well." "No, I simply knew Hunter as everyone knew him.
Tell me, then, how market bills are to be met when one is owed these thirties?" "Dear angel, Providence has decided that you shall deal with such problems." "Well, well, no more, not a centime beyond the thirty!" "Monstrous, yet all heart!" murmured Felix. He struck an attitude, and sang with exquisite feeling the opening bars of the Jewel Song from "Faust."
"Only this, little brother: Are you ready for Christmas?" "Alas! no: I never am. I have only two sous in the world." "Poor Cristobal! Yet, without a centime, one may be ready for Christmas." "But I am so very unhappy!" "You do indeed look sad, little brother: where is your pain?"
In February, 1809, the new Dey, the successor of the "épileur," a short time after having entered on his functions, claimed from two to three hundred thousand francs, I do not remember exactly the sum, which he pretended was due to him from the French Government. M. Dubois Thainville answered that he had received the Emperor's orders not to pay one centime.
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