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More than once, he was on the point of being arrested by the sentries for making his way into places from which the engineers of the garrison excluded the public, in order to make a profit of twelve or fifteen francs every year by the sale of the hay grown there.
If the young man is not to your liking, send him back to me; the Governor of our Poorhouse, whom you know well, offers him eight hundred francs to come as tutor to his children.
'Thirty-five francs, Father.''Keep a careful note of how you spend your money; you will have to account for it to me.'
Had Julien chosen to give his mind to the material interests of the Cathedral, his imagination flying beyond its goal would have thought of saving forty francs for the Chapter, and would have let slip the opportunity of avoiding an outlay of twenty-five centimes.
A gentleman who signed himself Paul Sorel, and professed to be related to him, sent him a bill of exchange for five hundred francs.
If we spoke the language of the Seminary, we might see a miracle in this windfall of five hundred francs, and say that it was M. de Frilair himself that heaven had employed to make this gift to Julien.
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.
He took the opportunity to send five hundred francs to the abbe's favourite pupil.
I have six hundred francs.'
He was so foolish as to say to two or three lifelong friends who escorted him to the carriage and stood admiring its heraldic blason, that after governing the Seminary for fifteen years he was leaving Besancon with five hundred and twenty francs in savings.
Will you be my secretary, with a salary of eight thousand francs, or indeed twice that sum?
I have seen him receive an anonymous or pseudonymous letter containing a bill of exchange for five hundred francs.''Ah!
Receiving favourable assurances from the abbe Pirard, the Marquis produced a note for one thousand francs:'Send this to Julien Sorel for his journey; tell him to come to me.''One can see,' said the abbe Pirard, 'that you live in Paris!
Remember that, even financially speaking, it is better to earn one hundred louis in an honest trade in timber, where you are your own master, than to receive four thousand francs from a Government, were it that of King Solomon himself.'Julien saw no more in this than the pettiness of a rustic mind.
'It was then that you sent me a sum of five hundred francs.''Never,' said Madame de Renal.
After abundant conjectures as to the source of the letter with the five hundred francs, Julien had resumed his narrative; he became rather more his own master in speaking of his past life which, in comparison with what was happening to him at that moment, interested him so little.
While in his turn her husband was giving her a long and detailed account of the pool he had won in the billiard room of the Casino, 'a pool of nineteen francs, begad!' he added, she saw lying on a chair before their eyes, and within a few feet of them, Julien's hat.
There will always be a King who seeks to extend his prerogative; the ambition to enter Parliament, the glory and the hundreds of thousands of francs amassed by Mirabeau will always keep our wealthy provincials awake at night: they will call that being Liberal and loving the people.
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 wished to give two or three hundred francs every year to the poor, they pestered me for them on behalf of pious associations; Saint Joseph, Our Lady, and so forth.
I shall lose fifty thousand francs, if I must, but I am overjoyed, I am leaving that hell of hypocrisy and malice.
'And all that has been your Bonaparte's doing,' Saint-Giraud continued: 'An honest man, harmless if ever there was one, forty years old and with five hundred thousand francs, can't settle down in the country and find peace there.
If he is pleased with you, your salary may rise in time to eight thousand francs.
I had five hundred and twenty francs of capital, neither more nor less; not a friend, at most two or three acquaintances.
If, instead of five hundred and twenty francs, I had had nothing, you would have saved me.'
The day after tomorrow, in the morning, this tailor will bring you two coats; you will give five francs to the boy who tries them on you.
It should have been a fine of five hundred francs and ten years in a dungeon.''Good God!Who can the monster be that they are discussing?' thought Julien, marvelling at his colleague's vehement tone and stilted gestures.
'The near horse cost me five thousand francs, and the off horse is only worth a hundred louis; but I must have you understand that he is only brought out at night.
He gave away hundreds of louis and went to law over hundreds of francs.
'Take three thousand francs for yourself,' he said, one day to his young minister.
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