"Here are ten thousand more francs," he said, "with the
fifteen thousand already in your pocket, they will make twenty-five thousand.
The other, on the contrary, when the sun which has given its light for fifteen days sinks below the horizon, see a splendid orb rise on the opposite horizon.
That face which fifteen days sooner, or fifteen days later, had been, or would be, splendidly illuminated by the solar rays, was then being lost in utter darkness.
Such is, perhaps, that of the lunar continents, when the orb of night has lost by radiation all the heat which fifteen days of sun have poured into her.
"I was thinking myself whether I could afford to pay you fifteen sous, when so many young women who have been regularly brought up to the business are willing to work for less.
"I know it all, mademoiselle, and the dear old lady shall not suffer; you shall both be made happy again on fifteen. To ease your mind, mademoiselle, I am willing to make a written contract for a year; at that rate, too, to put your heart at ease."
`He doesn't talk about the
fifteen dollars,' I exclaimed indignantly.
The wages of fifty boys each year will come to three hundred pounds-- that is,
fifteen hundred dollars.
And what had John Barleycorn to do with such strenuous, Stoic toil of a lad just turned fifteen? He had everything to do with it.
If I was only fifteen, at least I could not show myself any less a man than she.
"Yes, but from fifteen francs I sink at once to ten francs; namely, for an ordinary judge, and for an ecclesiastic."
"But did you not say that you treated those at ten francs like those at fifteen?"
There was a fire in the grate, as there had been night and day for
fifteen years.
He joined to these a spiral, two inches in diameter, which terminated in two branch pieces of unequal length, the longer of which, however, was twenty-five feet in height and the shorter only
fifteen feet.
At the same period Barbicane laid the first sleepers of a railway
fifteen miles in length, intended to unite Stones Hill with Tampa Town.
