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"What will Mademoiselle Piombo say to that?" asked a young girl of Mademoiselle Matilde Roguin, the lively oracle of the banking group. "She's not a girl to say anything," was the reply; "but fifty years hence she'll remember the insult as if it were done to her the night before, and revenge it cruelly. She is a person that I, for one, don't want to be at war with."
"We know you by heart, Cesar," said little Ragon, taking Cesar's hands and pressing them with religious friendship. Roguin was not without anxiety as to Claparon's entrance on the scene; for his tone and manners were quite likely to alarm these virtuous and worthy people; he therefore thought it advisable to prepare their minds.
I found the residence of Yverdon so agreeable that I resolved to yield to the solicitations of M. Roguin and his family, who, were desirous of keeping me there. M. de Moiry de Gingins, bailiff of that city, encouraged me by his goodness to remain within his jurisdiction.
The owners of the land have not received one penny; they have just been talking to me. The money you thought you raised upon your property in the Faubourg du Temple had no existence for you, or the borrower; Roguin has squandered it, together with your hundred thousand francs, which he used up long ago, and your last hundred thousand as well, for I just remember drawing them from the bank."
Conf., xi. 175. It is generally printed in the volume of his works entitled Mélanges. Corr., iii. 416. Conf., xi. 172. For a remarkable anticipation of the ruin of France, see Conf., xi. 136. M. Roguin. June 14, 1762. Corr., ii. 347. Streckeisen, i. 35. His friend Moultou wrote him the news, Streckeisen, i. 43. Geneva was the only place at which the Social Contract was burnt.
"Come and see me; my father has a fortune " "Ginevra," continued Laure, tenderly. "Madame Roguin and my mother are coming to see Monsieur Servin to-morrow and reproach him; hadn't you better warn him." A thunderbolt falling at Ginevra's feet could not have astonished her more than this revelation. "What matter is it to them?" she asked, naively. "Everybody thinks it very wrong.
"Put them down, Cesarine; all honor to commerce, for we belong to it! Monsieur and Madame Roguin." "Mamma, Madame Roguin will wear her diamond fillet and all her other diamonds, and her dress trimmed with Mechlin."
Though with a man like you, monsieur, a literary man whose youth has been preserved by hard work from the moral shipwreck now so prevalent, we may feel quite safe; still, you would be the first to laugh at me if I looked for a husband for my daughter with my eyes shut. Madame Roguin has, ever since 1820, been kept by a banker "
" as to commemorate my promotion to the order of the Legion of honor," continued Cesar. "Yes, I know. Who told me of that, the Kellers, or Nucingen?" Roguin, surprised at such tact, made an admiring gesture. "No, no; it was in the Chamber." "In the Chamber? was it Monsieur de la Billardiere?" said Birotteau. "Precisely." "He is charming," whispered Cesar to his uncle.
Quite incapable of understanding Roguin when he explained to her that in seven years Madame Descoings's assignment would replace the money she had sold out of the Funds, she persisted in trusting neither the notary nor her aunt, nor even the government; she believed in nothing but herself and the privations she was practising.
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