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"No; Madame du Tillet dines to-morrow with a future peer of France, the Baron de Nucingen, who is to leave me his place in the Chamber of Deputies." "Then permit her to join me in my box at the Opera," said the countess, without even glancing at her sister, so much did she fear that Eugenie's candor would betray them. "She has her own box, madame," said du Tillet, nettled.
"Don't trust people unless they live in hovels like Claparon," said Gigonnet. "Hey! mein freint," said the fat Nucingen to du Tillet, "you haf joust missed blaying me a bretty drick in zenting Pirodot to me. I don't know," he added, addressing Gobenheim the manufacturer, "vy he tid not ask me for fifdy tousand francs. I should haf gif dem to him."
He turned and followed the landlord. The latter mounted a flight of stairs, knocked at a door, and opened it. "A young gentleman desires to see M. du Tillet," he said, and Harry entered. A tall, big man, whose proportions at once disappointed Harry's preconceived notions as to the smallness and leanness of Frenchmen, rose from the table at which he was writing.
Well I suppose I shall get accustomed to it, and shall take to bowing and scraping as a matter of course." The Lion door was close at hand. In reply to the sailor's question the landlord said that M. du Tillet was within. The sailor put down the trunk, pocketed the coin Harry gave him, and with a "Good luck, young master!" went out, taking with him, as Harry felt, the last link to England.
If they make fifty thousand francs a year and spend sixty thousand, in twenty years they will get to the end of their property and be as naked as the little Saint John; and then, as they can't do without luxury, they will prey upon their friends without compunction. Charity begins at home. He is intimate with that little scamp du Tillet, our former clerk; and I see nothing good in that friendship.
This commercial tribunal, far from being made a useful means of transition whereby a merchant might rise, without ridicule, into the ranks of the nobility, is in point of fact made up of traders who are trading, and who are liable to suffer for their judgments when they next meet with dissatisfied parties, very much as Birotteau was now punished by du Tillet.
The next morning, Birotteau mounted guard as early as seven o'clock before du Tillet's door. He begged the porter, slipping ten francs into his hand, to put him in communication with du Tillet's valet, and obtained from the latter a promise to show him in to his master the moment that du Tillet was visible: he slid two pieces of gold into the valet's hand.
So that after du Tillet had explained the object of his visit, Popinot looked at him with concentrated wrath. "I shall not refuse to give up my lease; but I demand sixty thousand francs for it, and I shall not take one farthing less." "Sixty thousand francs!" exclaimed du Tillet, making a movement to leave the shop.
Women understand nothing of these things; for them, love is always a millionaire." "But since neither du Tillet nor Desroches married her; just explain Ferdinand's motive," said Finot. "Motive?" repeated Bixiou; "why, this. General Rule: A girl that has once given away her slipper, even if she refused it for ten years, is never married by the man who "
Monsieur Cesar let you settle the lease?" said du Tillet. "It is contrary to his habits." "Oh! I asked it of him. I am good to my tenants." "If Pere Birotteau fails," thought du Tillet, "this little imp would make an excellent assignee. His sharpness is invaluable; when he is alone he must amuse himself by catching flies, like Domitian."
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