"I understand," answered Porthos, "I understand you perfectly, on my honor; two
hundred louis, each of us, would be making a pretty thing of it; but what will people say?"
Pa will be in no hurry to give me more money soon, and I want, at this moment, near a
hundred dollars' worth of articles of dress to make a decent appearance.
At the rate of sixteen dollars to the ounce, the pan had contained seven
hundred and odd dollars.
We were to see much of the Black
Hundreds as the days went by.
By half-past eight it is doubled; by nine it is trebled; by ten it is multiplied sixfold; and by eleven the roar has become an incredible babel of one
hundred and eighty thousand conversations an hour, with fifty new voices clamoring at the exchanges every second.
He emptied the
hundred gold pieces into her lap in a glinting, tinkling stream.
I left fifteen
hundred pounds with my wife, and fixed her in a good house at Redriff.
In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three
hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three
hundred feet over all.
"Twelve
hundred to my tailor," continued the abbe; "the fellow has made me take back seven suits of my people's, which compromises my liveries, and my mistress talks of replacing me by a farmer of the revenue, which would be a humiliation for the church."
Secondly, there was the account of four years more, while they kept the effects in their hands, before the government claimed the administration, as being the effects of a person not to be found, which they called civil death; and the balance of this, the value of the plantation increasing, amounted to nineteen thousand four
hundred and forty-six crusadoes, being about three thousand two
hundred and forty moidores.
The principal aim of his journey was to reconnoitre Lake Tchad, from which he was still three
hundred and fifty miles distant.
"I agree with you, my good friend; and, in fact, following this proportion for a projectile nine feet in diameter, weighing 30,000 pounds, the gun would only have a length of two
hundred and twenty- five feet, and a weight of 7,200,000 pounds."