“Oh! and to mine too,” cried Planchet, transported with enthusiasm. “We will put him in a cage and show him for money.”
“Well, Planchet, that is a third plan, of which I had not thought.”
“Do you think it a good one?”
“Yes, certainly, but I think mine better.”
“Let us see yours, then.”
“In the first place, I shall set a ransom on him.”
“Of how much?”
“Peste! a fellow like that must be well worth a hundred thousand crowns.”
“Yes, yes!”
“You see, then—in the first place, a ransom of a hundred thousand crowns.”