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"Well, and am I still a foul dealer in human flesh, Baron de Nucingen?" cried the hideous Asie, forcing her way past the sheriff's officers to the couch, where she pretended to have just discovered the banker. "Contemptible wretch!" exclaimed Nucingen, drawing himself up in financial majesty.
Now all the wine that could be made out o' them grapes o' yourn wouldn't s'ply half the churches in this country, not to mention Europe an' Asie, an' Afriky; an' as long as that's the case, I don't see as you're called on to know that your wine's used fer anything but religious purposes.
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."
"Whom should I bring with me but a woman who is devoted to Lucien and willing to help us?" Asie had hit the truth. Madame de Serizy, who was regarded as one of the most fickle of fashionable women, had had an attachment of ten years' standing for the Marquis d'Aiglemont.
"Asie is coming to fetch you in a hackney coach, and you will be in Paris this evening. If you allow any one to suspect your connection with Lucien, you may as well blow his brains out at once. You will be asked where you have been for so long. You must say that you have been traveling with a desperately jealous Englishman. You used to have wit enough to humbug people. Find such wit again now."
She flattered herself that Esther, driving out one fine day, would meet her face to face. Esther's coachman was Paccard for her household had been made up in five days by Asie, Europe, and Paccard under Carlos' instructions, and in such a way that the house in the Rue Saint-Georges was an impregnable fortress.
If you make any fuss, if you take any steps, your daughter will begin where I tell you she will end she is promised to de Marsay. "With old Canquoelle I need not mince matters, I should think, or wear gloves, heh? Go on downstairs, and take care not to meddle in our concerns any more." Asie left Peyrade in a pitiable state; every word had been a blow with a club.
At the first moment he had only glanced at this legal document of the most familiar aspect; for, to save time, it is printed, and the magistrates' clerks have only to fill in the blanks left for the names and addresses of the witnesses, the hour for which they are called, and so forth. Asie made him tell her all about the Palais, which she knew more intimately than the lawyer did.
Within a few days Esther was to become the owner of the house in the Rue Saint-Georges and of shares yielding thirty thousand francs a year; Europe and Asie were quite cunning enough to persuade her to sell these shares and privately transmit the money to Lucien. Thus Lucien, proclaiming himself rich through his sister's liberality, would pay the remainder of the price of the Rubempre estates.
If Monsieur le Baron would take me as cook to Madame Esther, I would be the most devoted of slaves. I should be useful to you, monsieur, to keep an eye on Eugenie and madame." "Dere is no hope of dat," said the Baron. "I cannot succeet in being de master, I am let such a tance as " "As a top," Asie put in.
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