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"You are a set of blackguards!" cried he. "You have no right to speak the name of an honest woman in the same breath with those fallen creatures above all, not to make it a mark for your slander!" He was interrupted by unanimous bravos and applause. Bixiou, Leon de Lora, Vauvinet, du Tillet, and Massol set the example, and there was a chorus. "Hurrah for the Emperor!" said Bixiou.
All such letters, in which exclamation marks were suppliants and du Tillet placed himself, as it were, upon his knees, were to be considered as extorted by necessity; he could not refuse to write them, but they were to be regarded as not written. Seeing the i without a dot, the correspondent was to amuse the petitioner with empty promises.
No one but Ouvrard saw through this Alsacien banker, the son of some Jew or other converted by ambition; Ouvrard said, 'When Nucingen lets gold go, you may be sure that it is to catch diamonds." "His crony, du Tillet, is just such another," said Finot.
The law requires that while the drama is being acted, the creditors shall provide for the support of the bankrupt and his family. Pillerault notified the commissioner that he would himself supply the wants of his niece and nephew. Du Tillet had worked all things together to make the failure a prolonged agony for his old master; and this is how he did it.
His partners, Massol the lawyer, and du Tillet the banker, had intended from the first to harness his ardor to the chariot of their own importance and get rid of him as soon as he was out of condition to feed the paper, or else to deprive him of his power, arbitrarily, whenever it suited their purpose to take it.
"Such a thing can never happen to you." "What do you mean by that?" said du Tillet. "Oh! all in good part," said Lebas, smiling at the malicious meaning of Pillerault, who, without knowing the real truth, considered the man a scoundrel. Matifat caught sight of Cesar, and immediately the most noted merchants surrounded him and gave him an ovation boursiere.
"How they do amuse themselves!" cried the happy Birotteau. "I hope they won't break anything," said Constance to her uncle. "You have given the most magnificent ball I have ever seen, and I have seen many," said du Tillet, bowing to his old master. Among the eight symphonies of Beethoven there is a theme, glorious as a poem, which dominates the finale of the symphony in C minor.
Birotteau now brought about his downfall; he incensed the tiger, pierced him to the heart without knowing it, made him implacable by a thoughtless word, a eulogy, a virtuous recognition, by the kind-heartedness, as it were, of his own integrity. When the cashier entered, du Tillet motioned him to take notice of Cesar.
Fine doings! and she marries her daughter in Provins to get her out of the way, all on account of her own relations with du Tillet. And such people set up to be proud! Well, well, that's the world!"
"To give a little back, I suppose," said du Tillet, interrupting the Baroness. Nucingen was walking up and down the room as if his legs had the fidgets. "Now is your time to make him pay your fresh debts," said Rastignac in the Baroness' ear.
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