Then did you lend him the hundred louis on the spot?
Oh, a hundred Louis will be quite enough," replied the Chevalier, not encouraged to ask more by his companion's tone.
It cost me about a hundred louis, and in spite of the smallness of my means I thought I had made a good bargain.
I had a hundred Louis in cash, and a bill of exchange on Bordeaux for eight thousand francs.
If I do not succeed in accomplishing my purpose, or if I should be arrested, I have lost my bet, and shall owe Baron Waltz one hundred louis d'or, which must be paid him by the commissioners of the Trenck estate.
We have made a bet with him of a hundred louis d'or on this boast," said Baron Waltz, "and for greater security we have put it in writing.
By the way, make a memorandum to the effect that I have lent a hundred louis to Monsieur le Marquis de Cligneval, who was very unlucky at cards a day or two ago, at a house where I happened to be; he is to pay me very soon.
Faith, my friend, when a fellow is ruined, a hundred louis more or less aren't worth worrying about.
But more particularly, I wish to thank you for having been so good as to take care of my hundred louis d'ors.
I have a hundred louis a month for pin-money, and I distribute it in alms and presents, but with due economy, so that I am not penniless at the end of the month.
I ordered a waiter to bring cards, and I went to fetch four or five rolls of a hundred Louis each.
D'Entragues, who had won a hundred louis, would have gladly consented, but I would not give in, and M.
I continued to enjoy the society of my two servants and of the fair Alsation, who cost me a hundred louis.
Who would not be thrown out of window for a hundred louis?
You talk of a hundred louis; twelve will be sufficient to take you to Madame Varnier's.
Stuard wanted to leave me, but I told him that if he went out I would go too, as I could do nothing to console her, as he might know after her refusing the Marquis of Grimaldi's hundred louisfor a smile and her hand to kiss.
No more would I," said he, "but if she had accepted my hundred louis it would have been different.
The Marquis Grimaldi told me that she had refused a hundred louishe offered her, and that a Venetian of his acquaintance had fared just as badly.
I called on the banker who gave me the box, and in return for a hundred Louis a letter of credit on a Dunkirk house.
I saw through the Piedmontese, and had put him down as a knave; but Tiretta was not so sharp, and consequently lost all the money he had in his pockets and a hundred louis besides.
I have therefore asked for an advance of a hundred louis d'or on account of royalties, and as to the rest have ceded the opera without any conditions.
Seingalt gave him a hundred louis, on receipt of which he promised to leave Lyons immediately.
After dining, and discharging all the ceremonies and oracles which were necessary to calm the soul of my poor victim, I went to a banker and got a bill of a hundred louis on Lyons, to the order of M.
As she said these words, she slipped in my pocket five rolls containing each one hundred louis d'or--a slight consolation for my heart, which was almost broken by our cruel separation!
This excellent speculation had put him in such good humor that he had been unable to resist the temptation of purchasing a beautiful saddle-horse, which they let him have for a hundred louis.
While you have been trifling there, I might have gained--or lost--a hundred louis.
The Baroness Trigault has lost five hundred louis in betting.
A hundred louis," she repeated; "these ladies are then very rich.
Monseigneur, I accept charity from ladies; that does not so much humiliate a poor woman; and this lady, who had heard of my wants, left a hundred louis on my table when she went away.
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