sou

M. d'Infreville, justly incensed against me, had not left me a sou, and my mother and I became terribly poor.

The flowers are lovely; you can buy a big bunch of violets for a son, and sou is the peasant word for a halfpenny.

If you don't have the young woman, you can live at Hopton, but without a sou to your name.

But I don't care a sou where I go if I can get to act, or who they are if they'll help me.