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The poverty of the small house in which people would be obliged to live, with an income of fifty louis, portrayed itself to her in enchanting colours.
From the day after tomorrow, which is the first of the month, I shall give you fifty francs monthly.'Julien wanted to laugh and remained speechless: his anger had completely vanished.
The children, who had listened to this scene open-mouthed, ran to the garden to tell their mother that M. Julien was in a great rage, but that he was to have fifty francs a month.
'Here I am with a salary of fifty francs a month; M. de Renal must be in a fine fright.
What, more than fifty crowns a year?
'I am going to order you a good dinner; and,' she added in an undertone, 'it will only cost you twenty sous, instead of the fifty people generally pay; for you must be careful with your little purse.''I have ten louis,' retorted Julien with a certain note of pride.
The sober note of the bell ought to have suggested to Julien only the thought of the work of a score of men earning fifty centimes, and assisted perhaps by fifteen or twenty of the faithful.
Fifty, perhaps, of his fellow seminarists, made attentive to the realities of life by the public hatred and Jacobinism which, they are told, is lurking behind every hedge, on hearing the big bell of the Cathedral, would have thought only of the wages paid to the ringers.
Instead of asking for a gratuity of fifty thousand francs, disguised under some head or other that would pass in the budget, and allowing M. de Frilair to win this pettifogging action for fifty thousand francs, the Marquis took offence.
Julien jumped the wall of a terrace, proceeded fifty yards under cover, then continued his flight in a different direction.
I was, four years ago, forty years old, and had five hundred thousand francs, I am four years older now, and have probably fifty thousand less, which I shall lose by the sale of my place, Monfleury, by the Rhone, a superb position.
I shall lose fifty thousand francs, if I must, but I am overjoyed, I am leaving that hell of hypocrisy and malice.
This man evidently belonged to the Church, he did not appear to be more than fifty or fifty-five, no one could have looked more fatherly.
This Duke was a man of fifty, dressed like a dandy, and treading as though on springs.
Like your noble ancestors who followed Saint Louis to the Crusade, you ought, for those hundred and twenty thousand francs, to let us see at least a regiment, a company, shall I say a half-company, were it composed only of fifty men ready to fight, and devoted to the good cause, alive or dead.
In fifty years there will be nothing in Europe but Presidents of Republics, not one King left.
'It is no use your saying that France has not at this moment a trustworthy General, known and loved by all, that the army is organised only in the interests of Throne and Altar, that all the old soldiers have been discharged from it, whereas each of the Prussian and Austrian regiments includes fifty non-commissioned officers who have been under fire.
'Fifty thousand priests repeat the same words on the day indicated by their leaders, and the people, who, after all, furnish the soldiers, will be more stirred by the voice of their priests than by all the cheap poems in the world. .
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
In the second place, to corrupt the subordinates, I can put down here and now fifty thousand francs, and bind myself to pay double that sum.
There are fifty shades and tints and hues in every ten yards of that old wall.
She had a special graveyard made, in which to bury them when they died, and there they lie, about fifty of them, with a tombstone over each, and an epitaph inscribed thereon.
George had towed us up to Staines, and we had taken the boat from there, and it seemed that we were dragging fifty tons after us, and were walking forty miles.
The weir was just fifty yards below.
"When I have caught forty fish," said he, "then I will tell people that I have caught fifty, and so on.
On taking an extra handkerchief from his neck, and removing a cloak of blue cloth, with a surtout of the same material, he exhibited to the scrutiny of the observant family party, a tall and extremely graceful person, of apparently fifty years of age.
In an instant, the red wig which concealed his black locks, the large patch which hid half his face from observation, the stoop that had made him appear fifty years of age, disappeared.
exclaimed Sarah; "very pretty liberty which exchanges one master for fifty."
At the distance of more than a mile, about fifty dragoons were to be seen, winding down one of the lateral entrances of the valley.
Fifty pistols lighted the scene, and the bullets whistled in every direction round the head of the devoted peddler.
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