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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.
'That's a hundred and sixty-eight francs,' the Mayor said to himself, 'that M. Valenod has cost me.
'Here I am with a salary of fifty francs a month; M. de Renal must be in a fine fright.
But that someone, even if it should be M. Valenod, must be a little discouraged by the sum of 600 francs, which he must now be prepared to spend annually.
Not a month ago I put six thousand francs in the pocket of Michaud of Saint-Amand, whom I had not seen for six years, and met quite by chance at the Pontarlier sale.
Why should not you have made those six thousand francs yourself, or three thousand at least?
When at length the latter found himself alone in his little room walled with planks of firwood, 'It is true,' he said to himself, 'I can make a few thousand francs here, then return with advantage to the calling of soldier or priest, according to the fashion prevailing in France at the time.
'But do you realise,' he kept on saying, 'that I make you my partner, or, if you prefer, give you four thousand francs a year?
We pay twenty francs for each servant so that they do not cut our throats.'
Two or three hundred thousand francs, perhaps.'
The ceremony at Bray-le-Haut alone cost three thousand eight hundred francs.
After the suppression of Falcoz's paper, when his editor came out of prison, I was instrumental in making him lose a place worth six hundred francs.
Their tutor would receive a salary of eight hundred francs, payable not month by month, 'which is not noble,' said M. de Maugiron, but quarterly, and in advance to boot.
To be a worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, and not to be altogether unworthy of all one's learned fellow-labourers, one required education; one required to spend in the seminary at Besancon two very expensive years; it became indispensable, therefore, to save money, which was considerably easier with a salary of eight hundred francs paid quarterly, than with six hundred francs which melted away month by month.
At that moment, a footman offered Julien some Rhine wine in a green glass, and Madame Valenod took care to inform him that this wine cost nine francs the bottle, direct from the grower.
You will have a place worth perhaps twenty thousand francs, but it must be that while you gorge to repletion you stop the poor prisoner from singing; you will give dinner parties with the money you have filched from his miserable pittance, and during your dinner he will be more wretched still!
The servants had not failed to inform them that he was being offered two hundred francs more to educate the little Valenods.
Those that had been repeated to the Mayor had dealt exclusively with the question whether Julien would remain with him at six hundred francs or would accept the eight hundred francs offered by the Governor of the Poorhouse.
M. Maslon promised him he should have it for three hundred francs; and as the Mayor kicked, he was sent to the Bishop's Palace, by the Vicar-General de Frilair.'Julien's appearance on the scene seemed greatly to embarrass the two cronies, who did not say another word.
The crier was shouting: 'Three hundred francs, gentlemen!''Three hundred francs!
At this moment the last candle-end went out, and the drawling voice of the crier assigned the house for a lease of nine years to M. de Saint-Giraud, chief secretary at the Prefecture of ----, and for three hundred and thirty francs.
'That's thirty francs Grogeot's imprudence has earned for the town,' said one.
'What a scandal,' said a stout man on Julien's left: 'a house for which I'ld have given, myself, eight hundred francs as a factory, and then it would have been a bargain.''Bah!' replied a young Liberal manufacturer, 'isn't M. de Saint-Giraud one of the _Congregation_?
The town of Verrieres is simply bound to increase his income with an allowance of five hundred francs; that is all.''And to think that the Mayor hasn't been able to stop it!'
That, gentlemen, is one hundred and sixty francs.
'There is Signor Geronimo on his way to London with a salary of sixty thousand francs.
At length she succeeded in transforming the courage required to strike M. Valenod into that required to offer Julien six hundred francs for his maintenance for one year in a Seminary.
Madame de Renal found it far harder to prove to Julien that, if he sacrificed to her husband's convenience a post worth eight hundred francs, publicly offered him by the Governor of the Poorhouse, he might without blushing accept some compensation.
Madame de Renal had still some thousands of francs hidden in the little cave in the mountains.
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