Nay, morethe government would allow each hostage four piasters a day for food, a cook would be brought down from Constantinople and meals served in a restaurant, that they might be saved, as his secretary observed, from the unlovely "odeurs de'cuisine.

She charged forty piasters (8s.), and put down a good round sum in the bill for servants' fees and such like.

He demands three piasters for his Alfieri, which he offers for sale and which is said to be as large as his Galvani.

I loaned you eighty-seven piasters on it!' "'But I've got an equity in it!