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There are some women to whom nothing is sacred: think of squandering the trust moneys of a notary! Madame Roguin won't have a penny, except by claiming her rights of dower; the scoundrel's whole property is encumbered to its full value. I bought the practice for three hundred thousand francs, I, who thought I was getting a good thing! and paid a hundred thousand down.
"Such deeds make mention that payment has been made, and notaries are obliged to declare that they have seen the money passed from the lender to the borrower. Roguin would be sent to the galleys if the law could get hold of him.
This success was but one part of the task before Madame Birotteau. The poor woman now went to the "Maison du Chat-qui-pelote," in the Rue Saint-Denis, to find Joseph Lebas. As she walked along she met Madame Roguin in a brilliant equipage, apparently making purchases. Their eyes met; and the shame which the rich woman could not hide as she looked at the ruined woman, gave Constance fresh courage.
When I set of from Montmorency to go into Switzerland, I had resolved to stop at Yverdon, at the house of my old friend Roguin, who had several years before retired to that place, and had invited me to go and see him. I was told Lyons was not the direct road, for which reason I avoided going through it.
The notaries looked at each other, as if in consultation, and finally rose and walked to the window. "Did you ever meet people born into the world like that?" asked Roguin of his brother notary. "You can't get anything out of him," replied the younger man. "In your place, I should simply read the summons.
"But look here, my boy," he went on, addressing the notary, "I shall want some information which ought to exist in your office. Was it not that old rascal Roguin ?" "We will say that unfortunate, that ill-used Roguin," interrupted Alexandre Crottat with a laugh.
"Have you been robbing the poor-box?" asked the perfumer, laughing. Roguin replied that he had won the money, at the house of a banker, from du Tillet, who confirmed the answer without blushing. Cesar, on the other hand, grew scarlet. "Du Tillet," said the worthy man, "three thousand francs are missing from the desk.
It was a rope thrown to a drowning man, and Roguin did not perceive that the perfumer's clerk had flung it round his neck. Master of Roguin's secret, du Tillet made use of it to establish his power over wife, mistress, and husband.
They were watched with jealous, wondering eyes. Madame Roguin, Constance, and Cesarine formed, as it were, a link which united the three types of feminine aristocracy to the commercial figures about them.
"No, I shall not; not until you are seated, and have replaced yours, if you feel the cold. My room is chilly, the smallness of my means not permitting God grant your wishes!" he added, as Birotteau sneezed while he felt in his pockets for the deeds. In presenting them to Molineux Cesar remarked, to avoid all unnecessary delay, that Monsieur Roguin had drawn them up.
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