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Original Text:
Et les cinq francs de ce matin? - Mais je te les dis: trois livres et demie de tranche au petit os, deux sous de foie, un ognon brûlé, ça nous fait 58; une demi-once à priser, un quarteron de sucre; six liards de graine de lin, voila donc 3 francs 10 sous. - Eh bien! il reste trente sous - Oui, mais les carottes! je connais vos carottes, Madame Grimblot, - je n'en avalerai plus!...

Translation:
- And the five francs from this morning?
- But I tell you 3 1/2 livres for a cut of a little bone.... two sous for liver, a burnt onion, that makes 58, a half ounce of snuff, a quarter pound of sugar, six pennies for linseed.... hence there is three francs 10 sous.
- Eh, well there remain 30 sous.
- Eh, but the carrots!
- I know your carrots, Madame Grimblot, I won't swallow any of those any more.
(Note: Play on words. "carottes" means carrots and also to play a trick on someone)