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La Romette was to the "purchasers of wardrobes" what these women are to the better class of so-called ladies in difficulties Madame la Ressource, that is to say, money-lenders at a hundred per cent. "Now, child," said Asie, "I have got to be figged out. I must be a Baroness of the Faubourg Saint-Germain at the very least. And sharp's the word, for my feet are in hot oil.
He looked at Esther and Lucien as he spoke, then he took advantage of the general dismay to vanish with the utmost rapidity, meaning to run home without waiting for the coach. In the street the spy was gripped by the arm as he crossed the threshold of the outer gate. It was Asie, wrapped in a black hood such as ladies then wore on leaving a ball.
At this moment Asie had come to the dark hall looking out on the yard of the Conciergerie, where the ushers wait. On seeing the gate through the window, she exclaimed: "What are those high walls?" "That is the Conciergerie." "Oh! so that is the Conciergerie where our poor queen Oh! I should so like to see her cell!"
"Send for the Sacraments, Papa Peyrade," said she, in the voice that had already prophesied ill. A coach was waiting. Asie jumped in, and the carriage vanished as though the wind had swept it away. There were five carriages waiting; Peyrade's men could find out nothing.
So the Baroness and the lawyer were allowed to pass, and they presently found themselves in the little guard-room at the top of the stairs leading to the "mousetrap," a spot well known to Asie, forming, as has been said, a post of observation between those cells and the Court of the Sixth Chamber, through which everybody is obliged to pass.
When a girl has never known any but charming young men, she cannot take to an old one. You are not handsome; you are as big as Louis XVIII., and rather dull company, as all men are who try to cajole fortune instead of devoting themselves to women. Well, if you don't think six hundred thousand francs too much," said Asie, "I pledge myself to make her whatever you can wish."
Asie, without its being known to Contenson and Peyrade, had been asked by Madame du Val-Noble to come and help her cook. As they sat down to table, Peyrade, who had given Madame du Val-Noble five hundred francs that the thing might be well done, found under his napkin a scrap of paper on which these words were written in pencil, "The ten days are up at the moment when you sit down to supper."
Chapitre. ¶ Of Ethiope, and the auncient maners of that nation. Two countreies there ware of that name Ouerlanders, and Netherlanders. The one pertaynyng to Aphrique, the other to Asie.
It is twelve o'clock; the Baron will look in, no doubt, when the Bourse closes; I shall tell him I was waiting for him, and Asie is to prepare us dinner, first-chop, mind you; I mean to turn the man's brain. Come, hurry, hurry, my girl; we are going to have some fun that is to say, we must go to work." She sat down at the table and wrote the following note:
"You will find Eugenie a sharp customer," said Asie. "I found her for madame." "Hah! I know her!" cried the millionaire, laughing. "She haf fleeced me out of dirty tousant franc." Esther shuddered with horror in a way that would have led a man of any feeling to trust her with his fortune. "Oh, dat vas mein own fault," the Baron said. "I vas seeking for you."
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