Well, we can't commit any great extravagance with that amount of floating capital." "Better turn back and go to my rooms for some more money ?" I exclaimed.
"I've two Napoleons in my desk." "No, no--we should miss the three-fifty train, and not get another till between five and six." "But we shall have no fun if we have no money!" "I dissent entirely from that proposition, Monsieur Englishman.

I have always had plenty of fun, and I have been short of cash since the hour of my birth.

Come, it shall be my proud task to-day to prove to you the pleasures of impecuniosity!" So with our eleven francs and a half we went on to the station, and took our places for Courbevoie.
We travelled, of course, by third class in the open wagons; and it so happened that in our compartment we had the company of three pretty little chattering grisettes, a fat countrywoman with a basket, and a quiet-looking elderly female with her niece.

These last wore bonnets, and some kind of slight mourning.

They belonged evidently to the small bourgeoise class, and sat very quietly in the corner of the carriage, speaking to no one.