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Upon my word, if you only wanted a thousand-franc note to keep you from blowing your brains out, you would find it here, for we haven't yet done any business of that sort, eh, Paul? If you had to fight to-morrow, I would measure the ground and load the pistols, so that you might be killed according to rule.
"That pays for my place, but how about my principles, my conscience?" said Europe, cocking her crafty little nose and giving the Baron a serio-comic leer. "Your conscience shall not be pait for so much as your place; but I shall say fife tousand franc more," said he adding five thousand-franc notes. "No, no. Twenty thousand for my conscience, and five thousand for my place if I lose it "
Your money is in the last volume next to the salon See! Vol. III. is before Vol. II. but you have no money, it is all in " " thousand-franc notes," said the doctor. "I cannot see, they are folded. No, there are two notes of five hundred francs." "You see them?" "Yes." "How do they look?" "One is old and yellow, the other white and new." This last phase of the inquiry petrified the doctor.
Instead of tissue-paper, a thousand-franc note covered each of these engravings . Edme, vol. ii., p. 383. On another occasion, the king gave her a copy of the "Charter;" and in this each leaf was also covered with a thousand-franc note, as in the Bible.
No woman could hold her own against this little angel, who is a devil under her skin; she can play any part you please; get complete possession of your uncle, or drive him crazy with love. She has that celestial look poor Coralie used to have; she can weep, the tones of her voice will draw a thousand-franc note from a granite heart; and the young mischief soaks up champagne better than any of us.
The supposed Spaniard might absorb the earnest-money, Lucien might build up his fortune with the stones of her tomb, a single night of pleasure might cost the old banker so many thousand-franc notes more or less, Europe might extract a few hundred thousand francs by more or less ingenious trickery, none of these things troubled the enamored girl; this alone was the canker that ate into her heart.
"So there have been financial difficulties during the past few months?" "Yes." "And the murder was committed when?" "Last March, on a Sunday." "Who was the victim?" "A distant cousin, M. Guillaume, who lived at Suresnes." "What was the sum stolen?" "Sixty thousand-franc notes, which this cousin had received the day before, in payment of a long-outstanding debt." "Did your husband know that?"
His mind fumbled, for a moment, in the darkness, he took off his spectacles, wiped the glasses, passed his hands over his eyes, but saw no light until he found himself face to face with a wholly different idea, the realisation that he must endeavour, in the coming month, to send Odette six or seven thousand-franc notes instead of five, simply as a surprise for her and to give her pleasure.
Vanderlyn's thin nervous hand shot up to his mouth to hide a smile; the eerie feeling which had so curiously possessed him dropped away, leaving him slightly ashamed. "Poor woman," he said to himself, "she cannot even divine that I am an honest man!" He bent his head gravely, and took the roll of notes with which he had come provided out of his pocket. He placed a thousand-franc note on the table.
The monk held out his hand without a word, and without a word Victorin Hulot gave him eighty thousand-franc notes, taken from a sum of money found in Crevel's desk. Young Madame Hulot inherited the estate of Presles and thirty thousand francs a year. Madame Crevel had bequeathed a sum of three hundred thousand francs to Baron Hulot.
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