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"My fat friend, you shall come this evening in your carriage, of course opposite the Gymnase. It is on the way," said Asie. "Stop at the corner of the Rue Saint-Barbe. I will be on the lookout, and we will go and find my mortgaged beauty, with the black hair. Oh, she has splendid hair, has my mortgage. If she pulls out her comb, Esther is covered as if it were a pall.
At that time the Quai Pelletier was being extended, the entrance to the works was guarded by a crippled soldier, and the barrow would be quite safe in his keeping. Asie then jumped into a hackney cab on the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, and said to the driver, "To the Temple, and look sharp, I'll tip you well."
Primo, en Asie. C'est la première idée qui se présente; étant donné l'intérêt de se rendre maître de la région Yenishahr-Erenkeui, qui prend nos plages de débarquement
"You must get into the skin of Madame de Saint-Esteve," said he. Herrera wished to see Asie dressed. The go-between arrived in a dress of flowered damask, made of the curtains of some dismantled boudoir, and one of those shawls of Indian design out of date, worn, and valueless, which end their career on the backs of these women.
Asie put on a little, thin voice to explain to this obliging gentleman that she appeared in answer to a summons from a judge named Camusot. "Oh! in the Rubempre case?" So the affair had its name already. "Oh, it is not my affair. It is my maid's, a girl named Europe, who was with me twenty-four hours, and who fled when she saw my servant bring in a piece of stamped paper."
Europe, detecting a packet of soft consistency, betraying the contents to be banknotes, under her mistress' pillow, proceeded at once to "lay her out," as she said. "Go and tell monsieur, Asie! Oh, to die before she knew that she had seven millions! Gobseck was poor madame's uncle!" said she. Europe's stratagem was understood by Paccard.
Asie was terrifying, but you knew her thoroughly from the first; she descended in a straight line from Locusta; while Europe filled you with uneasiness, which could not fail to increase the more you had to do with her; her corruption seemed boundless. You felt that she could set the devils by the ears. "Madame might say she had come from Valenciennes," said Europe in a precise little voice.
Asie had, perhaps, promised poisoned meat-balls to all the family in the event of any indiscretion. On the day after Esther's removal, Contenson found this man rather more amenable; he regretted the lady, he said, who had fed him with the broken dishes from her table.
But keep a tight rein on Eugenie; she will do any earthly thing for money; she is a dreadful creature!" "An' vat of you?" "I," said Asie, "I make both ends meet." Nucingen, the astute financier, had a bandage over his eyes; he allowed himself to be led like a child.
The wig he shrewdly regarded as suspicious; he took the number of the cab while seeming quite indifferent to what was going on; Asie and Europe puzzled him beyond measure. He thought that the Baron was the victim of excessively clever sharpers, all the more so because Louchard, when securing his services, had been singularly close.
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