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I can get on for two years longer, to my sixtieth, so as to get the pension of one hundred and eighty francs.
You, all of you, only bring in nine francs.
"Oh! nine francs!" exclaimed Maheu.
We owe sixty francs to Maigrat, who turned me out of doors day before yesterday.
Set to work, all of you; and I give you notice that the stall is fined three francs."
I'll give you something more than three francs fine, I will.
The Grégoires' fortune, about forty thousand francs a year, was entirely invested in a share of the Montsou mines.
For forty years he had struggled without yielding, in the midst of continual obstacles: early searches unsuccessful, new pits abandoned at the end of long months of work, landslips which filled up borings, sudden inundations which drowned the workmen, hundreds of thousands of francs thrown into the earth; then the squabbles of the management, the panics of the shareholders, the struggle with the lords of the soil, who were resolved not to recognize royal concessions if no treaty was first made with themselves.
In the distribution they had divided the total property, according to the standard of the money of the time, into twenty-four sous, of which each was subdivided into twelve deniers, which made two hundred and eighty-eight deniers; and as the denier was worth ten thousand francs the capital represented a sum of nearly three millions.
When the Montsou treaty was made, Honor, who had laid up savings to the amount of some fifty thousand francs, yielded tremblingly to his master's unshakable faith.
He took out ten thousand francs in fine crowns, and took a denier, though with the fear of robbing his children of that sum.
His son Eugéne, in fact, received very small dividends; and as he had become a bourgeois and had been foolish enough to throw away the other forty thousand francs of the paternal inheritance in a company that came to grief, he lived meanly enough.
Those poor ten thousand francs grew and multiplied with the Company's prosperity.
From 1820 they had brought in one hundred per cent, ten thousand francs.
During two years the dividend had reached the prodigious figure of fifty thousand francs; the value of the denier, quoted at the Lille bourse at a million, had centupled in a century.
Six months later an industrial crisis broke out; the denier fell to six hundred thousand francs.
It was a well-regulated existence; the forty thousand francs were spent quietly, and the savings expended on Cécile, whose tardy birth had for a moment disturbed the budget.
"Then," he murmured, "if I were to ask you to put a hundred thousand francs in my affair you would refuse?"
What was to become of them if Maigrat persisted in cutting short their credit, and if the Piolaine people would not give them the five francs?
Sure enough, we owe you sixty francs these two years."
And then a misfortune had happened two days before; she had been obliged to pay twenty francs to a shoemaker who threatened to seize their things.
As she walked she was already spending the five francs, first bread, then coffee, afterwards a quarter of butter, a bushel of potatoes for the morning soup and the evening stew; finally, perhaps, a bit of brawn, for the father needed meat.
Tears had filled her eyes, she thought herself sure of the five francs, and was only preoccupied by the way in which she would ask for them if they were not offered to her.
As to lodging, it only costs six francs a month; that sounds like nothing, but it is often pretty hard to pay.
One can afford to be clean when one has lovers who earn three thousand francs, and are lodged and warmed, without counting presents.
I ought to explain to you that the Company rents them the house at six francs a month.
We shall have bread until Saturday, and the best is that he has lent me five francs.
Seven sous for the chitterlings, eighteen for the potatoes, and I've got three francs seventy-five left for a ragout and a meat soup.
Then he became confused, spoke of a debt of two francs which had reduced his family to despair.
"Half a franc a year for the general fund, two francs for the section; it looks like nothing, but I bet that many will refuse to give it."
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