Grandet was too gentle to revolt, but her pride forbade her ever asking a sou from her husband.

Across the counter, packed with its curious stock, I saw Monsieur Joseph, with shirt-sleeves rolled up, gravely handing a stick of chocolate to a child, and taking its sou in return.

He plays his last sou on the famous game, and in the evening, when he returns home, he carries to his familywhat?the empty bottle!

Nay, should she by the pavement linger Under the rooms where once she played, Who from the feast would rise to fling her One poor sou for her serenade?

It is even probable that each time that money was used in large sums the pound or the sou of gold was represented more by ingots of metal than by stamped coin.

I had not the first sou toward it.

Her doglike love struggled with her love for her money, amassed sou by sou, hidden away, "making more," as she said.

The bankruptcy of a partner has forced him to suspend his payments and unable to witness his own shame he has fled to America, after having paid his last sou to his creditors.

They told me when I got there that he had run away; that he had not left a sou behind him; that many families would be ruined.