And he complained bitterly.

Really now a thousand francs was not enough.

His children had forsaken him, he was all alone in the world, and obliged to quit France.

He almost wept as he spoke of his coming exile.
"Come now, will you take the eight hundred francs ?" said Rougon, who was in haste to be off.
"No, certainly not; double the sum.

Your wife cheated me.