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"Louchard, you shall gife ein hundert francs to Contenson out of the change of the tousand-franc note." "De lady is a beauty," said the cashier to the Baron, as they left the Rue Taitbout, "but she is costing you ver' dear, Monsieur le Baron." "Keep my segret," said the Baron, who had said the same to Contenson and Louchard.
So we offer you simply, and without haggling, ze full terms you demanded weeks ago one hundert tousand poundts in cash, a salary of three tousand poundts a year, a pension of one tousand poundts a year, and ze title of Paron as you desired. These are my instructions." He resumed his scrutiny of Bert's face.
She represented herself as pinched and in debt, and to crown all, she was so undisguisedly hideous that the Baron at last believed her to be all she said she was. "Vell den, I shall pay the hundert tousant, and vere shall I see her?" said he, with the air of a man who has made up his mind to any sacrifice.
"Sefen hundert and feefty rupees," said he uncompromisingly. He was abrupt, blunt, and insulting. As we wanted transportation very much though not seven hundred and fifty rupees' worth we persisted. He offered an imperturbable take-it-or-leave-it stolidity. The motor truck stood near. I said something technical about the engine; then something more. He answered these remarks, though grudgingly.
Suddenly the owner appeared and, pouncing furiously upon him, asked if he knew what he was doing. "Peeling a most extraordinary onion," replied the philosopher. "Hundert tousant tuyvel!" shouted the Dutchman, "it's an Admiral Van der Eyk!" "Thank you," replied the traveler, immediately writing the name in his notebook. "Pray, are these very common in your country?"
"You hafe a genius for corruption," said the Baron, who had listened to Asie in admiring silence, "just as I hafe de knack of de banking." "Then it is settled, my pigeon?" said Asie. "Done for fifty tousant franc insteat of ein hundert tousant! An' I shall give you fife hundert tousant de day after my triumph." "Very good, I will set to work," said Asie.
"But I shall hafe paid ein hundert tousant franc." "In the course of the second week," Asie went on, as though she had not heard this lamentable ejaculation, "madame, tempted by these preliminaries, will have made up her mind to leave her little apartment and move to the house you are giving her.
"Dere!" he cried, holding up a golden chaplet, or wreath for the head, of ruby flowers and leaves wrought in gold, a large pearl at the base of every leaf "dere! You shall not see a better sight in all de city ach! not in Nuremburg nor Coln. Dat is what you want it is schon, schon! and dirt sheap it is only von hundert marks. You take it?"
Jacques Falleix had spoken to him about this house, which was worth sixty thousand francs at most, and he wished to be put in possession of it at once, so as to avail himself of the privileges of the householder. The cashier, honest man, came to inquire whether his master had lost anything by Falleix's bankruptcy. "On de contrar' mein goot Volfgang, I stant to vin ein hundert tousant francs."
I haf receifed die aggonts. You vill haf one hundert tousant francs, Matame de Nucingen, so you can buy chewels and oder tings to make you bretty, as if you could be brettier!" "Good God! the Ragons sold their shares!" exclaimed Birotteau. "Who are those persons?" asked the elegant de Marsay, smiling. "Egzactly," said Monsieur de Nucingen, turning back when he was almost at the door.
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