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"But you have made more important inventions than this, haven't you?" he asked when the other stopped talking. Varna's eyes flashed and his voice dropped to a tone of mystery as he answered: "Yes indeed I have. But I did not have time to finish them. For I had become some one else." "Some one else?" "Cardillac," whispered Varna, whose mania was now getting the best of him again. "Cardillac?
Perrault was shackling him. When high noon arrived, Mademoiselle Scuderi had to go to Madame Montansier, so the visit to René Cardillac had to be put off till the following day. But the young man was always present to her mind, and a species of dim remembrance seemed to be trying to arise in the depths of her being that she had, somehow and somewhen, seen that face and features before.
I stammered out in the best way I could that I was incapable of such a terrible deed, and that they must let me go. Then one of them held a lantern to my face, and said, with a laugh: 'This is Olivier Brusson; the goldsmith who works with our worthy Master René Cardillac. He murder folks in the street! very likely story!
They shook hands and avoided each other's eyes, and Cardillac had a sudden desire to fling the Grand Tour and the rest of it to the dogs and to come back for another year to Dawson's. "Well, I must get back, got to be in library at four," he said. "I'm going to stop here a bit," said Peter.
I saw that he was startled, but he smiled at me and reached out his hand to me and said: 'What brings you here, my dear Cardillac? And then I struck. I wanted him to die with that smile on his lips. It is beautiful to see a man die smiling, it shows that he has not been afraid of death. He was dead at once. I always kill that way I know just how to strike and where.
Certain, at any rate, that Dune's recrudescence threatened the ruin of Cardillac's two dearest ambitions, and Cardillac did not easily either forget or forgive.
"A moment," said Cardillac; "the bailiff always comes lounging here at dinner-time. If he should enter the hall to listen to Pique-Vinaigre, and should see us fixing Germain, he is likely to sing out for help; he is not fly; look out." "That is true," said the Skeleton. "A bailiff here!" cried Frank, the victim of Boulard, with astonishment. "And what is his name?" "Boulard," said Cardillac.
"And now, my dear Cardillac, you must tell us of your great deeds here," said the detective in a friendly tone. The unfortunate man bent over him with shining eyes and whispered: "But you'll shoot him first, won't you?" "Why should I shoot him?" "Because he won't let me say a word without beating me. He is so cruel. He sticks pins into me if I don't do what he wants."
Especially had Carfax and Cardillac made his life a burden to him, and whenever it seemed that there was nothing especial to do, the cry arose, "Let's go and rag Bunning," and five minutes later that fat body would tremble at the sound of many men climbing the wooden stairs, at the loud banging on his wooden door, at the cry, "Hullo, Bunning we've come for some coffee."
The man actually loved those diamonds for themselves, and had never thought of turning them to money." "I understand," said Cerizet, "a mania like that of Cardillac, the jeweller, which has now been dramatized." "If he made that proposal in good faith," said Cerizet, "it was a desirable one. The interest of the capital sunk in the diamonds was more than returned by that from the other property."
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