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He works us all, but does he ever spare himself? Look at Vardri? Rich, well-born, starving at the Hippodrome on a few pesetas a week. I thought you had better stuff in you. Are you going to turn out English milk-and-water? You're not English, you say? No, I suppose you're not, or you wouldn't talk about 'dirty Gentiles. If you think Anarchy is all 'Le Rêve' you'll soon find yourself mistaken.
Don't I pay every week? Well, then, here's my board. Seven days at five pesetas per, that's just thirty-five pesetas, huh? What's the matter with you?" He made the coins jump and jingle in his agile hand, well-used to dealing cards. Then he added: "To-day's Saturday. So then, I'll pay you now. That'll leave me three pesetas for extras tobacco and car-fare. Oh, it's a fine time I'll have!"
The afternoon had been unseasonably chilly, but the sun had shone brightly, and the races had been exciting. Alicia smiled, contented. She had won eight hundred pesetas, and her eyes still beheld the jockeys speeding with dizzy swiftness against the background of the April landscape.
"I see you think he's right." Arrived at the lodgings she sat still, waiting in the cab with the same apparent indifference while Emile wrangled with the landlady. At length he came back to her: "You had better try these for a week," he said. "They're forty pesetas. She will want the rent in advance as you have no recommendation." For the first time Arithelli seemed disturbed.
You've got as little guts as you have nose." Tabuenca spat out a series of insults and blasphemies, and turning around, left the place. "And who's going to pay me for this broken lantern?" asked the mule-driver. "How much is it worth?" asked Roberto. "Three pesetas." "Here they are." "That Tabuenca is a loud-mouthed imbecile," said the mule-driver as he took the money.
So I continued visiting him till he would see me no longer, and do what I might I could not obtain a glance of him. The canon now became impatient, more especially as he had given me a few pesetas out of the charities of the church. He frequently called me a bribon and impostor.
The generals whom they sent to Cuba gave less thought to the suppression of the insurrection than to filling their own pockets. Out of the millions and millions of pesetas set aside by an already impoverished people for the needs of war, a great part was stolen by generals and by army contractors.
The list of minerals alone, raised from mines in working, amounts to twenty-two, ranging from gold and silver, copper, tin, zinc, quick-silver, salt, coal, etc., to cobalt and antimony; and 8,313,218 tons of minerals of all these twenty-two classes were raised in 1882 against 1,201,054 in 1862. The value of imports in 1882 was 816,666,901 pesetas, and of exports 765,376,087 pesetas.
Darlés felt a bit disconcerted, and secretly investigated his pockets, estimating the money he had. Mentally he counted: "Five pesetas, ten, fifteen." Yes, there was enough for two seats and a carriage to come back in. "All right, just as you like," he answered, more reassured. "Then I'll go change my dress. I'll be back in a minute."
After some difficulties in obtaining information as to "how much," the shillings and pence, pesetas and centimes of the tourists were exchanged for the milk, lemonade, orangeade, and water, the cakes, rolls, and oranges of the dealers. One of the ladies, after making a purchase, said, "I asked that woman with the black-eyed baby the price of a half dozen oranges.
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