ransom
/ˈɹæn.səm/ nom B2En français : rançon
- Money paid for the freeing of a hostage. · They were held for two million dollars ransom.· They were held to ransom.
- The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration. · prisoners hopeless of ransom
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Dans la bibliothèque
A second very obvious one is that this young man really is the heir of a great property, however modest his means may at present be, and it is not impossible that a plot to hold him for ransom might be concocted.”
Well,” continued the count, in a tone that made Franz shudder, “this young gentleman is one of my friends—this young gentleman lodges in the same hotel as myself—this young gentleman has been up and down the Corso for eight hours in my private carriage, and yet, I repeat to you, you have carried him off, and conveyed him hither, and,” added the count, taking the letter from his pocket, “you have set a ransom on him, as if he were an utter stranger.”
“Welcome among us, your excellency,” he said to him; “you heard what the count just said, and also my reply; let me add that I would not for the four thousand piastres at which I had fixed your friend’s ransom, that this had happened.”
So, then, they have paid my ransom?”
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