{sou = a small coin (5 centimes)--20 sous equal one franc}

"I have no more, madame," said Adrienne, in a faint voice.

The woman, who had been trained in the school of suspicion, looked
intently at the other, for an instant, and then she swept the money into
her drawer, content with having extorted from this poor girl more than
she would have dared to ask of the wife of the agent de change.
Adrienne took me up and glided from the shop, as if she feared her
dear bought prize would yet be torn from her. I confess my own delight
was so great that I did not fully appreciate, at the time, all the hardship
of the case. It was enough to be liberated, to get into the fresh air, to be
about to fulfill my proper destiny. I was tired of that sort of vegetation in
which I neither grew, nor was watered by tears; nor could I see those
stars on which I so much doated, and from which I had learned a
wisdom so profound. The politics, too, were rendering our family
unpleasant; the cote droit was becoming supercilious--it had always
been illogical; while the cote gauche was just beginning to discover that
it had made a revolution for other people. Then it was happiness itself to
be with Adrienne, and when I felt the dear girl pressing me to her heart,
by an act of volition of which pocket-handkerchiefs are little suspected,
I threw up a fold of my gossamer-like texture, as if the air wafted me,
and brushed the first tear of happiness from her eye that she had shed in
months.

{revolution for other people = as he suggests frequently in this story,
Cooper believed that the promise of the July Revolution was betrayed,
and that the new government of King Louis Philippe proved little better
than the old reactionary one of King Charles X; in this he shared the