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If not, should I have given her twenty thousand francs?" "Ver' goot, it is a pargain. Till dis efening." The Baron repeated the bridal toilet he had already once achieved; but this time, being certain of success, he took a double dose of pillules. At nine o'clock he found the dreadful woman at the appointed spot, and took her into his carriage. "Vere to?" said the Baron. "Where?" echoed Asie.
"Yes, yes, of course he is!" cried the Countess, looking quite kindly at the dreadful old woman. "But," Asie went on, "if Monsieur Camusot questions him the wrong way, he can make a guilty man of him with two sentences; so, if it is in your power to get the Conciergerie opened to you, and to say a few words to him, go at once, and give him this paper.
And he vanished after giving his instruction to the Malay who went back into the room. She found Esther weeping bitterly. The poor girl, like a criminal condemned to death, had woven a romance of hope, and the fatal hour had tolled. "My dear children," said Asie, "where do you mean to go? For the Baron de Nucingen "
The strange conformation of the maxillary bones gave the lower part of this face a resemblance to that of the larger species of apes. The brow, though sloping, was not deficient in intelligence produced by habits of cunning. Two fierce little eyes had the calm fixity of a tiger's, but they never looked you straight in the face. Asie seemed afraid lest she might terrify people.
"Monsieur," said Asie to the lawyer, "take me at once to Monsieur Camusot; I have come about this case; and he might be very glad to see me before examining that poor priest." The lawyer and the Baroness left the guardroom, with its greasy, fuliginous walls; but as soon as they reached the top of the stairs, Asie exclaimed: "Oh, and my dog!
"But I shall hafe paid ein hundert tousant franc." "In the course of the second week," Asie went on, as though she had not heard this lamentable ejaculation, "madame, tempted by these preliminaries, will have made up her mind to leave her little apartment and move to the house you are giving her.
Once there, thanks to the Duchess, not an instant was lost. The two women were at once shown up to the Countess, whom they found reclining on a couch in a miniature chalet, surrounded by a garden fragrant with the rarest flowers. "That is well," said Asie, looking about her. "No one can overhear us." "Oh! my dear, I am half dead!
Wherefore setting vpon it a fresshe, where the booke is deuided acording to thaunciente diuision of the earth into thre partes, Affrique, Asie, and Europe: hauing brought to an ende the two firste partes, I found no persons in mine opinion so fitte as your honour, to present theim vnto.
Esther looked at the great banker with a start of surprise that was admirably acted. "Ja, mein kind, I am dat Baron von Nucingen." "The Baron de Nucingen must not, cannot remain in such a room as this," Asie went on. "Listen to me; your former maid Eugenie." "Eugenie, from the Rue Taitbout?" cried the Baron.
Being questioned by Asie, the servant revealed to this female spy the terrible effects of the notes written to Monsieur le Baron by his mistress. "Monsieur must be desperately in love with the woman," said he in conclusion, "for he was very near dying. For my part, I advised him never to go back to her, for he will be wheedled over at once.
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