1 They asked a thousand livres for him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 2 "Four times fifteen makes sixty--six thousand livres," said Athos.
3 Grimaud had a stout, short Picard cob, which cost three hundred livres.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 4 These three hundred livres he reckoned upon putting snugly into his pocket.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER 5 "Four hundred and seventy-five livres," said d'Artagnan, who reckoned like Archimedes.
6 It must have been for his hide, for, CERTES, the carcass is not worth eighteen livres.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF 7 Dessessart's valet came to d'Artagnan's lodging, and gave him a bag containing seven thousand livres.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS 8 A half hour afterward, d'Artagnan returned with the two thousand livres, and without having met with any accident.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 9 He was not ignorant that such a beast was worth at least twenty livres; and the words which had accompanied the present were above all price.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 10 He was an Irishman--one of the most skillful of his craft, and who himself confessed that he gained a hundred thousand livres a year by the Duke of Buckingham.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER 11 Thus the dealer to whom d'Artagnan sold him for the nine livres did not conceal from the young man that he only gave that enormous sum for him on the account of the originality of his color.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 12 We will each take a thousand livres to be employed as seems good, and we will leave a fund of a thousand livres under the guardianship of Monsieur Abbe here, for extraordinary occasions or common wants.
13 With the four hundred livres we will make the half of one for one of the unmounted, and then we will give the turnings out of our pockets to d'Artagnan, who has a steady hand, and will go and play in the first gaming house we come to.
14 In that case," said Athos, "Planchet must receive seven hundred livres for going, and seven hundred livres for coming back; and Bazin, three hundred livres for going, and three hundred livres for returning--that will reduce the sum to five thousand livres.
15 Finally, the rest of the equipment was successively debated in the same manner; and the result of the sitting was that the procurator's wife should give eight hundred livres in money, and should furnish the horse and the mule which should have the honor of carrying Porthos and Mousqueton to glory.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER