"How many?"
"One hundred and forty-two persons."
"And thou hast brought——?"
"About a thousand francs," naming the sum.
"Seven francs per head! It is small!"
"It is good. They were peasants."
"They had not, then, sold their goods?"
"Some had sold, others bought."
The man opened a heavy sack which he carried under his arm; he spread out the contents before the secretaries, who began to count the amount. The receipts were from thirty to forty Mexican piastres, some handfuls of Austrian zwanzigs and an enormous quantity of copper coins. Some crumpled papers were among the money. They were bank notes of ten francs each.
"Thou hast no jewels?" asked the King.