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After that, we found a jodeler every ten minutes; we gave the first one eight cents, the second one six cents, the third one four, the fourth one a penny, contributed nothing to Nos. 5, 6, and 7, and during the remainder of the day hired the rest of the jodelers, at a franc apiece, not to jodel any more. There is somewhat too much of the jodeling in the Alps.
She turned her head and looked a silent question. "Oh, it's just that franc and a half!" he explained. "I'll never get over that as long as I live!" She pulled down her veil and turned away from him again. When they reached Paris, he insisted that she take a carriage and go home directly. "I'll go on to the reading-room and explain to your hired girl that you were sick and couldn't wait for her."
Have you ceased to trust me your good genius? me, when I have spent so many nights working for you when I have given you every franc I have saved in my lifetime when for four years I have shared my bread with you, the bread of a hard-worked woman, and given you all I had, to my very courage." "Mademoiselle no more, no more!" he cried, kneeling before her with uplifted hands. "Say not another word!
I shall gif you one tousant franc." Louchard, a little weasel, who had never been able to purchase an office as lawyer, notary, clerk, or attorney, leered at the Baron in a significant fashion. "To you a thousand crowns, or let it alone. You will get them back in a few seconds on the Bourse," said he. "I will gif you one tousant franc," repeated the Baron.
"I think we had better have some lanterns, for I do not think I could find my way without them, tonight; at any rate, it would take us much longer." "There, boy, that will do," the sergeant said, laying his hand on his shoulder. "I am satisfied, now, with the truth of your story. I thought, for a bit, you had something to do with the franc tireurs who are about here, but I see I was mistaken.
The fossils above alluded to in the black calcareous shales are few in number, and are in an imperfect condition; they consist, as named for me by M. d'Orbigny, of: Ammonite, indeterminable, near to A. recticostatus, d'Orbigny, "Pal. Franc." Natica, indeterminable. 4. Cyprina rostrata, d'Orbigny, "Pal. Franc." Mer." 6.
"At a franc and a half the square foot for the material only, Monsieur le comte would find his wall would cost him a third of the whole value of Les Aigues," said Sibilet, with a laugh. "Well, well," said Montcornet, "I shall go and see the attorney-general at once."
According to the style of the hôtel in which you take up your abode, the porter will expect remuneration; at one that is moderate, and not in a first-rate situation, six sous a day is sufficient, but in most hôtels about the fashionable quarters half a franc is the usual sum expected; for this your bed is made, your boots and shoes cleaned, as also your room, and your clothes brushed; they likewise take in messages or letters, and answer all enquiries respecting you, direct the visiters to your apartment, etc., but if you send them out anywhere, no matter how short the distance, they always charge at least ten sous for it; it is one of the dearest things I know in France, that of charging for every little errand or commission.
"Taken, no! Stolen, yes!" answered the general quickly. M. Pedre-Lacaze came up arm-in-arm with Napoleon Duchatel. Both were in high spirits. They lighted their cigars from Franc d'Houdetot's cigar and said: "Do you know? Genoude is going to bring in an impeachment on his own account. They would not allow him to sign the Left's impeachment.
At whatever cost, he must push on towards the Western Sea. The situation was nevertheless most critical. His own means had long since been exhausted. True, he possessed a monopoly of the fur trade, but what did it profit him? He had not touched, and never would be able to touch, a franc of the proceeds: the shrewd merchants of Montreal had made sure of this.
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