we will say five and thirty sous, and have no more words about it."

{Jamais = never; three days = the three days of the July Revolution;
Cependant = nevertheless}

Adrienne sighed, and then she received the money and returned home.
Two hours later the woman of the shop met with an idle customer who
had more money than discretion, and she sold this very thimble for six
francs, under the plea that it was a new fashion that had sprung out of
the Revolution of July. That illustrious event, however, produced other
results that were quite as hard to be reduced to the known connection
between cause and effect as this.

Adrienne found that by using the wine which still remained, as well as
some sugar and arrowroot, her grandmother could be made
comfortable for just ten sous a day. She had been able to save of her
own wages three, and here, then, were the means of maintaining
Madame de la Rocheaimard, including the franc on hand, for just a
week longer. To do this, however, some little extra economy would be
necessary. Adrienne had conscientiously taken the time used to sell the
thimble from her morning's work on me. As she sat down, on her
return, she went over these calculations in her mind, and when they
were ended, she cast a look at her work, as if to calculate its duration
by what she had so far finished. Her eye assured her that not more than
one fourth of her labor was, as yet, completed. Could she get over the
next six weeks, however, she would be comparatively rich, and, as her
lease would be out in two months, she determined to get cheaper
lodgings in the country, remove her grandmother, purchase another
handkerchief--if possible one of my family--and while she lived on the
fruits of her present labors, to earn the means for a still more remote