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He had not laid out a centime only scratched a few words on a sheet of paper. Again I repeated to him
"An old monkey knows what grimaces mean: I have offered her a thousand francs a month and a carriage that comes to fifteen hundred; five hundred francs' worth of presents, and as much again in some outings, dinners and play-going; you see, I am not deceiving you by a centime when I say a thousand crowns. A man of my age may well spend a thousand crowns on his last fancy."
"How did you get here to Alenon?" "Walked it's my custom." "Rom Rouen?" He nodded. "I'm a member of the Troupe Fabiani of Strolling Acrobats," he laughed. "I'm learning the gentle art of bear-baiting. Won't you come in?" She searched his face keenly and accepted his invitation, first handing him her fifty centime piece, which he dropped without comment into his pocket.
"There is your money," he said; "take it, and never again will one of us step a foot under your roof!" "I want six francs more," muttered the man. The women gathered about in great indignation; not a centime would they give, they declared. Mme Fauconnier had had a wretched dinner; she said she could have had a better one at home for forty sous.
Driftwood, like thousands of others, tossed up on the shore after the storm; lying there bleached and useless and battered. Then, one day in Nice, there was no money. Not a franc. Not a centime. He knew hunger. He knew terror. He knew desperation. It was out of this period that there emerged Giddy, the gigolo. Now, though, the name bristled with accent marks, thus: Gédéon Goré.
The old man's eyes would water at sight of that stern, long-faced puritan, who never had much to say in the house, but went into high dudgeon over the slightest waste on the part of the domestics, scolding the farmhands for the merest oversight in the orchards, haggling and wrangling with the orange drummers for a centime more or less per hundredweight.
But then, there is France: they have a small coin there which they call a centime, and these go five to the cent, or thereabout. We could not do better. Come, Keawe, let us go to the French islands; let us go to Tahiti as fast as ships can bear us. There we have four centimes, three centimes, two centimes, one centime; four possible sales to come and go on; and two of us to push the bargain.
Almost immediately afterwards Barroux came out, and as Duvillard was about to enter he recognised and detained him. And he spoke of the denunciations very bitterly, like one indignant with all the slander. Would not he, Duvillard, should occasion require it, testify that he, Barroux, had never taken a centime for himself?
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.
Del Ferice declared that he believed Montevarchi solvent, as he believed every one with whom his bank dealt to be solvent to the uttermost centime, but that he could lend no more money to any one on any condition whatsoever, because neither he nor the bank had any to lend.
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