{sou = a small coin (5 centimes)--20 sous equal one franc}
This was the secret of my purchase, and the true reason why this lovely girl had literally expended her last sou in making it.
"In such times as we had before these vile republicans drove all the strangers from Paris, and when our commerce was good," she said, "I might have offered seven francs and a half for that thimble; but, as things are now, the last sou I can think of giving is five francs."
"But no, better sing 'Cinq
sous.' Now, Kolya, your hands on your hips, make haste, and you, Lida, keep turning the other way, and Polenka and I will sing and clap our hands!
"Well, then, send away the Abbe Fouquet; I have not a
sou." Gourville made a step towards the door.
"Why, how do you reach the year's end without debts?" Genestas went on, "when you bring up children for a livelihood and wash and feed them on two sous a day?"
Then, thinking that the laborer is worthy of his hire, he drew a few sous from his waistcoat pocket, and held them out to the child, who looked astonished at this, opened his eyes very wide, and stayed on, without thanking him, to watch what the stranger would do next.
She is dangerous to beauty, when beauty hasn't the sou."
Her husband must take her as she is: I can't give her a sou. But the young men don't see with that eye."
Nevertheless, he never borrowed a
sou of his companions, although his purse was ever at their service; and when he had played upon honor, he always awakened his creditor by six o'clock the next morning to pay the debt of the preceding evening.
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