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"Of making myself heir here, as I did at Barcelona, to an old bigot, by Asie's help." "A crime?" "I saw no other way of securing your fortune. The creditors are making a stir. If once the bailiffs were at your heels, and you were turned out of the Hotel Grandlieu, where would you be? There would be the devil to pay then."
As soon as Asie's back was turned, Europe opened the packet, on which the hapless courtesan had written: "To be delivered to Monsieur Lucien de Rubempre." Seven hundred and fifty thousand-franc notes shone in the eyes of Prudence Servien, who exclaimed: "Won't we be happy and honest for the rest of our lives!" Paccard made no objection.
"Asie's cooking prevents my ever thinking a dinner good, however famous the chef may be, where I happen to dine. However, Careme did the dinner to-night, as he does every Sunday." Lucien involuntarily compared Esther with Clotilde. The mistress was so beautiful, so unfailingly charming, that she had as yet kept at arm's length the monster who devours the most perennial loves Satiety.
The banker, to avoid overloading the table with gold and silver, had completed the array of each service with porcelain of exquisite fragility in the style of Dresden china, which had cost more than the plate. As to the linen Saxony, England, Flanders, and France vied in the perfection of flowered damask. At dinner it was the Baron's turn to be amazed on tasting Asie's cookery.
Well, every day in Paris a hundred or more passions a la Nucingen come into being, and find expression in offering such rarities as queens dare not purchase, presented, kneeling, to baggages who, to use Asie's word, like to cut a dash.
If there had been any one to witness the scene, he would have understood that the woman known as Asie was at home here. "I have had some diamonds offered me," said la Romette as she dressed Asie's head. "Stolen?" "I should think so." "Well, then, however cheap they may be, we must do without 'em. We must fight shy of the beak for a long time to come."
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