If it had not been that the Reds had come to-day I should have brought his sisters with him.

I was just starting to arrange it with you when those wretches came and took them away, and it may be that they would pay a hundred crowns to you, and that is not a sum to be earned every day." "No, indeed," her sister said briskly; "that will buy Pierre a new boat, and a good one, such as he can go out to sea in; besides, as you say, after what his sister did for Julie we are bound to help them.

What do you say, Pierre ?" Pierre's face had expressed anything but satisfaction until the money was mentioned, but it then changed entirely.

The times were bad--his boat was old and unseaworthy--a hundred crowns was a fortune to him.
"I have risked my life often," he said, "to earn five crowns, therefore I do not say no to the offer.

Monsieur, I accept; for a hundred crowns I will run the risk of keeping you here, and your sisters too if they should come, until you can cross the water." "Very well then," Marthe Pichon said.