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Chaval bought a looking-glass for nineteen sous and a handkerchief for three francs, to give to Catherine.
But they were all in the same condition, and for forty-five francs he could not demand rabbit to every meal.
These forty-five francs helped the family and enabled them to make both ends meet, though always leaving some small debts and arrears; so the Maheus were grateful to their lodger; his linen was washed and mended, his buttons sewn on, and his affairs kept in order; in fact he felt all around him a woman's neatness and care.
I am not rich, but I would give five francs to keep alive to see that.
"Three thousand francs!
Then he repeated:"Maheu and associates, Filonniére seam, cutting No. 7.One hundred and thirty-five francs."
" Maheu followed this calculation in a low voice: nine days gave him about thirty francs, eighteen to Catherine, nine to Jeanlin.
No matter, by adding the ninety francs of Zacharie and the two mates, that would surely make more.
"Twenty francs for fines for defective timbering."
Twenty francs of fines, four days of rest!
To think that he had once brought back a fortnight's pay of full a hundred and fifty francs when Father Bonnemort was working and Zacharie had not yet set up house for himself!
He understood vaguely that the question of his father's retirement would be taken into consideration with the pension of a hundred and fifty francs, fifty years of age and forty years' service.
He had thrown himself into a chair, weeping like a child, and throwing fifty francs on the table:"Here," he stammered.
How were nine people to live for a fortnight on fifty francs?
On investigation the Company had resigned itself to giving a donation of fifty francs.
How were they to live, seven persons without counting Estelle, on his three francs?
Complaints of exile began; she accused her husband of having sacrificed her to a salary of forty thousand francs, a trifle which hardly sufficed to keep the house up.
From that time he was treated as one of the family; he even had his room there, his meals there, lived there, and was thus enabled to send to his mother half his salary of three thousand francs.
"When I think," he exclaimed, "that these chaps in our pits used to gain six francs a day, double what they gain now!
Have they not a provident fund?""Yes, scarcely three thousand francs.
This year it has spent three hundred thousand francs in building settlements which only return two per cent, and I say nothing of the pensions which it pays, nor of the coals and medicines which it gives.
A well-equipped pit today costs from fifteen hundred thousand francs to two millions; and it is difficult enough to get a moderate interest on the vast sum that is thus swallowed.
And she kept her esteem for him because he did not get drunk, and regularly paid his forty-five francs for board and lodging.
But he awoke and started at the voice of Maheu, who was narrating his luck, a superb trout which he had fished up and sold for three francs.
Four thousand francs sent by the International from London had scarcely supplied bread for three days, and then nothing had come.
Every day of rest carried away hundreds of thousands of francs.
After having emptied the mattresses, handful by handful, they had decided the day before to sell the clock for three francs and the room seemed bare and dead now that the familiar tick-tack no longer filled it with sound.
And they would see then if, after forty years of service, any one would dare to offer a pension of a hundred and fifty francs to an old man of sixty who spat out coal and whose legs were swollen with the water from the cuttings.
"I owed you sixty francs, now you're paid, thief!" said Maheude, enraged like the others.
"Here, I owe you six francs; would you like to settle it?
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