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Corentin rested his elbow on the arm of the chair on which he was sitting, and his head on his hand, meditating. "Money! The man has more than we have," said he. "Esther Gobseck served him as a bait to extract nearly two million francs from that well of gold called Nucingen. Gentlemen, get me full legal powers, and I will rid you of the fellow." "And the letters?" asked the Duc de Grandlieu.
When the Faubourg Saint-Germain remembered this as a crime against the Grandlieus, Louis XVIII. respected them for it; but perhaps his only object was to annoy Monsieur. A marriage was considered likely between the young Vicomte de Grandlieu and Marie-Athenais, the Duke's youngest daughter, now nine years old.
I meant to tell her that Lucien must certainly fail in his last attempt to win Mademoiselle Clotilde de Grandlieu; and I hoped that by telling her she had inherited seven millions of francs, I might give her courage to live. "I am convinced, Monsieur le Juge, that I am a martyr to the secrets confided to me.
The following week, after the marriage ceremony, which, according to the custom of many families of the faubourg Saint-Germain, was celebrated at seven in the morning at the church of Saint Thomas d'Aquin, Calyste and Sabine got into their pretty travelling-carriage, amid the tears, embraces, and congratulations of a score of friends, collected under the awning of the hotel de Grandlieu.
Monsieur d'Ajuda arranged to dine with Maxime at the club in the rue de Beuane, and proposed to him after dinner to go and play dummy whist with the Duc de Grandlieu, who had an attack of gout and was all alone.
To Madame la Duchesse de Grandlieu: Dear Mamma, You will understand why I did not write to you during the journey, our wits are then like wheels. Here I am, for the last two days, in the depths of Brittany, at the hotel du Guenic, a house as covered with carving as a sandal-wood box.
Just at that moment the Duchess came out of her boudoir. She had recognised her aunt's voice and heard the name of Montriveau. She was still in her loose morning-gown; and even as she came in, M. de Grandlieu, looking carelessly out of the window, saw his niece's carriage driving back along the street. The Duke took his daughter's face in both hands and kissed her on the forehead.
Look here, what does he live on? Where does his money come from? He has, I am certain, sixty thousand francs in debts." "He has found a friend in a very rich Spanish priest who has taken a fancy to him," replied Rastignac. "He is going to be married to the eldest Mademoiselle de Grandlieu," said Mademoiselle des Touches.
Of this transaction no one could complain. Esther alone could betray herself; but she would die rather than blink an eyelash. Clotilde had appeared with a little pink kerchief round her crane's neck, so she had won her game at the Hotel de Grandlieu. The shares in the Omnibus Company were already worth thrice their initial value.
It is, therefore, needful to mention how Paris was, for the moment, excited by the news of the arrest of a Spanish priest, discovered in a courtesan's house, and that of the elegant Lucien de Rubempre, who had been engaged to Mademoiselle Clotilde de Grandlieu, taken on the highroad to Italy, close to the little village of Grez.
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