Better be envied than pitied, as your aunt used to say.

Come, I see you are getting on in the world, so much the better.

I would have given you more," he went on, "but it is all I have in the till.

I should have to go upstairs and I cannot leave the shop, customers drop in every moment." "You were saying that business was not flourishing ?" Uncle Monetti pretended not to hear, and said to his nephew who was pocketing the twenty nine sous: "Do not be in a hurry about repayment." "What a screw," said Rodolphe, bolting.

"Ah!" he continued, "there are still thirty-one sous lacking.