But the ten thousand francs crackled pleasantly in my breast pocket, and when I finally took leave of Monsieur Aristide Fournier and his charming wife, I was an exceedingly happy man.

To him my forty francs, a month's subscription, were a godsend, nor were my invitations to dinner and to the theatre to be disdained.

They played with notes, five francs being the smallest, and the others twenties and hundreds.

It seemed queer but we see lots of queer things, and five hundred francs is a nice sum.

"Three or four francs are not the usual terms.

Then, the viselike pressure on his chest relaxing slowly, he murmured in a faint voice: "The five thousand francs in the desk are Clotilde's.

The francs mitoux, who were never taxed above five sous, were sickly members of the fraternity, or at all events pretended to be such; they tied their arms above the elbow so as to stop the pulse, and fell down apparently fainting on the public footpaths.

The words of his father had moved him to such a point that he could not restrain his tears; on the other hand, at such a moment, four thousand francs were no bagatelle.

Two francs was the fare, and he seemed highly gratified with the sum, little realizing that he could just as well have had two hundred francs for that seat.

A thousand francs is a great deal of money,it is a Peru, as we say.