It was the fault of the others, that was all! He ended by giving the three francs, keeping the seven sous for the morrow's tobacco.

Coupeau, who was furious, would have knocked him over had not Gervaise, greatly frightened, pulled him by his coat, and begged him to keep cool.

He decided to borrow the two francs of Lorilleux, who after refusing them, lent them on the sly, for his wife would never have consented to his doing so.
Monsieur Madinier went round with a plate.

The spinster and the ladies who were alone--Madame Lerat, Madame Fauconnier, Mademoiselle Remanjou--discreetly placed their five-franc pieces in it first.
Then the gentlemen went to the other end of the room, and made up the accounts.

They were fifteen; it amounted therefore to seventy-five francs.