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Call it twenty-five thousand francs. 'Very well; but not a sous more. 'Shall I trust you? 'Am I not trusting you? It is well for you that I do not allow myself to think of the venture I am making. 'Perhaps we're even there. We neither of us can afford to make account of certain possibilities.
"Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name distinctly. This is a theft. "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the worse for it.
"But Monsieur shook his head. 'Impossible, he said. 'I have not the strength for even the four leagues' walk to the sea, and finding a ship that would take us is a mere chance. We have almost no money. Here at least we have shelter, and still some sous for bread. Jeanne, my beloved, you must make up your mind to leave me again alone and unhindered you might find your way back in safety.
A number of blackguard-looking men gathered round us, recommending their own services, and different hotels, with much vehemence, and violent altercations among themselves; and troops of children followed, crying, "Vivent les Anglois Give me one sous."
Levasseur tells us that toward the end of the reign of Louis Philippe the wage of a woman varied ordinarily from twelve to twenty-five sous, exceptionally from twenty to forty; that of children being from six to fifteen sous; of men from thirty sous for ordinary laborers, to forty or forty-five for skilled work. The census for 1851 gave for Paris 112,891 workwomen, 60,000 of whom were sewers.
"If twenty sous would save him, I would give them." "I also." "Rascal of a Cut-in-half! Whatever is he going to do?"
She used to work for ten, in spite of her ninety-two years. You don't find any made of that stuff nowadays!..." La Rapet answered gravely: "There are two prices: Forty sous by day and three francs by night for the rich, and twenty sous by day, and forty by night for the others. You shall pay me the twenty and forty." But the peasant reflected, for he knew his mother well.
Not wanting to live in hermit fashion, I went downstairs to dine at the public table, and I found a score of people sitting down to such a choice repast that I could not conceive how it could be done for forty sous a head. The fair stranger drew all eyes, and especially mine, towards her.
Trente centimes, chaque verre! Thirty, my old one. Six sous, comprenez?" "No comprennye," said the Australian. "Vingt centimes, or go to hell." The woman demanded the thirty centimes; kept on demanding with a voice more shrill. "It was her voice that vexed me," said the Australian. "That and the bloody injustice."
The housekeeper opened it and showed it to the king, on whom she cast the rapid, savage look with which old maids appear to squirt venom upon men. "It costs six sous the 'septeree," she said. "What does that matter?" said the king. "Spread it on the floor; but be careful to make an even layer of it as if it had fallen like snow." The old maid did not comprehend.
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