在所有的小城里，尤其是在滨海蒙特勒伊，有一种青年人，在外省每年蚕食一千五百利弗的年金，正和他们的同类在巴黎每年鲸吞二十万法郎同一情形。

• There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred thousand francs a year in Paris.