Thus every hour enormous sums were spent, making great breaches in the shareholders' dividends; a rapid destruction of the pits was going on, which must end at last by eating up the famous Montsou deniers which had been centupled in a century.
C'étaient ainsi, d'heure en heure, des frais énormes, des breches ouvertes dans les dividendes des actionnaires, une rapide destruction des fosses, qui devait finir, a la longue, par manger les fameux deniers de Montsou, centuplés en un siecle.