1 There are in this bag three hundred pistoles.
2 Here is an order for two hundred pistoles; call upon my treasurer and get the money.
3 Unfortunately he was in a bad vein; he lost all, together with twenty-five pistoles for which he had given his word.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 4 D'Artagnan put his forty pistoles into his pocket without any scruple--on the contrary, thanking his Majesty greatly.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII 5 I was at the Louvre on the day when he scattered his pearls; and, PARDIEU, I picked up two that I sold for ten pistoles each.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF 6 La Chesnaye, go and see if by rummaging all my pockets you can find forty pistoles; and if you can find them, bring them to me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII 7 The messenger, without replying a single word, bowed, took the letter, with the order for the two hundred pistoles, and retired.
8 The king waved his hand to Treville, who left him and rejoined the Musketeers, whom he found sharing the forty pistoles with d'Artagnan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII 9 Each one, stretching out his hand to the bag, took his seventy-five pistoles, and made his preparations to set out at the time appointed.
10 At last it became Aramis's turn, who performed it with a good grace and who succeeded--as he said, by selling some theological books--in procuring a few pistoles.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 11 At length when they found they were likely to be really in want, they got together, as a last effort, eight or ten pistoles, with which Porthos went to the gaming table.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 12 d'Artagnan is right," said Athos; "here are our three leaves of absence which came from Monsieur de Treville, and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don't know where.
13 Your affair is not bad," said Athos, after having tasted like a connoisseur and indicated by a nod of his head that he thought the wine good; "and one may draw fifty or sixty pistoles from this good man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF 14 In the meantime, the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII, like all other things of this world, after having had a beginning had an end, and after this end our four companions began to be somewhat embarrassed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 15 When the wind of adversity began to blow upon the housekeeping of the Rue des Fossoyeurs--that is to say, when the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII were consumed or nearly so--he commenced complaints which Athos thought nauseous, Porthos indecent, and Aramis ridiculous.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 16 When d'Artagnan was out of the Louvre, and consulted his friends upon the use he had best make of his share of the forty pistoles, Athos advised him to order a good repast at the Pomme-de-Pin, Porthos to engage a lackey, and Aramis to provide himself with a suitable mistress.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 17 Some fragments of past splendor appeared here and there upon the walls of this modest lodging; a sword, for example, richly embossed, which belonged by its make to the times of Francis I, the hilt of which alone, encrusted with precious stones, might be worth two hundred pistoles, and which, nevertheless, in his moments of greatest distress Athos had never pledged or offered for sale.
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