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He leaned from the saddle to bring his recipient hand to a convenient distance. Andre-Louis placed in it a three-livre piece. "In half an hour," said Andre-Louis. "Why in half an hour? Why not at once?" "Oh, but time to break our fast." They looked at each other. The sergeant next considered the broad piece of silver in his palm. Then at last his features relaxed from their sternness.
Here we entered Languedoc, and were stopped to have our baggage examined; but the searcher, being tipped with a three-livre piece, allowed it to pass. Before we leave Dauphine, I must observe, that I was not a little surprized to see figs and chestnuts growing in the open fields, at the discretion of every passenger.
The sergeant was so overcome by the sight of that noble visage on a three-livre piece that his anger vanished, and he has gone his ways leaving us to depart in peace." "Ah, true! He said we must decamp. About it, my lads! Come, come..." "But not until after breakfast," said Andre-Louis. "A half-hour for breakfast was conceded us by that loyal fellow, so deeply was he touched.
We seldom see any gold and silver coin, but the loui'dore, and the six, and three-livre Pieces of France; a sure sign that the French suffer by their contraband commerce with the Nissards. The coin chiefly used at market is a piece of copper silvered, that passes for seven sols and a half; another of the same sort, valued two sols and a half.
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