Crossword-Solution: RECOUPING 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

While the stout beer-drinker and amorous German fought with the devil and flung an inkbottle at his head, the man from Picardy, a sickly celibate, made plans of campaign, directed battles, armed princes, and roused whole peoples by sowing republican doctrines in the hearts of the burghers--recouping his continual defeats in the field by fresh progress in the mind of the nations.

The expenses of his wife’s confinement were heavy, and he was obliged to trench upon his savings, but he had no doubt about soon recouping this now that Ellen was herself again; for a time indeed his business did revive a little, nevertheless it seemed as though the interruption to his prosperity had in some way broken the spell of good luck which had attended him in the outset; he was still sanguine, however, and worked night and day with a will, but there was no more music, or reading, or writing now.

She brightened as she realised that they had still one chance--through Alaric--of recouping, even slightly, the family fortunes.

While he was recouping his strength and spirits, on the 1832 holiday, she was in Paris negotiating with Pichot of the _Revue de Paris_, with Gosselin and other publishers, arranging for proofs, and also for an advance of cash.

But this defies logic: the market today is huge, the costs of production and lower (with the exception of the music and film industries), the marketing channels more numerous (half of the income of movie studios emanates from video cassette sales), the speedy recouping of the investment virtually guaranteed.