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The extraordinary avidity of the people kept up the delusion; and the higher the price of Indian and Mississippi stock, the more billets de banque were issued to keep pace with it.
He fumbled in a drawer of this, and returned holding in his hand a pink-and-blue note of the Banque de France. He said: "Monsieur pardon! I have forgotten to ask the name you have remarked quite truly that one must gain a livelihood. Therefore, I do not presume to criticise the way in which you gain yours. Sometimes one cannot choose.
Therefore, as Monsieur de la Chaise signifies, he who is lucky enough to-day to own a few actions of the Banque Royale, or even the old actions of Monsieur L'as' bank, which will be redeemed by its successor, is in a way to gain greater sums than were ever seen on the face of any investment from the beginning of the world until to-day! Now, as I was about to ask of you, Monsieur Fraslin "
There was a little stir when Monsieur and Mademoiselle de Laisangy were announced, for that same morning the official journal of the empire had announced the opening of the Banque de Credit Imperial, with a capital of sixty million. Monsieur de Laisangy was the director of this new bank.
"I saw this man at the door where we stood to-night," said Bobichel. "Yes, I saw him, too," answered Fanfar. "But who can this woman be?" She was an old woman, with white hair. "We must all go to work. Madame Fanfar, we want your help; hot linen and flannels, if you please!" Very stately and magnificent were the offices of the Banque de Credit Imperial. The prospectus made one's mouth water.
"Yes," said I; "but certainly you are the most unbelieving of mortals, and I am quite happy that I have yet in my possession two of the billets de banque, for, I suppose, without them, you would scarcely credit me." I here opened my pocket-book, and produced the notes.
Having no corkscrew, we knocked off the neck of the bottle, and being short of glasses, drank our wine out of teacups. "But you have never opened your parcel all this time," I said presently. "It may be full of billets de banque who can tell?" "That's true," said Müller; and broke the seals. "By all the Gods of Olympus!" he shouted, holding up a small oblong volume bound in dark green cloth.
"Easy, easy, push this under his head: never mind his boots!" So he lies on 'Tite Poulette's own bed. The watch are gone. They pause under the corner lamp to count profits; a single bill Banque de la Louisiane, fifty dollars. Providence is kind tolerably so. Break it at the "Guillaume Tell." "But did you ever hear any one scream like that girl did?" And there lies the young Dutch neighbor.
Tapotte is not only going to sit for a companion half-length to Madame's portrait, but he has given me a commission for half-a-dozen ancestors. Fancy half-a-dozen illustrious dead-and-done Tapottes! What a scope for the imagination! What a bewildering vista of billets de banque! I feel ah, mon ami!
A night for preparation; next day, armed with credentials in "billets de banque," Villa Rocca will lure the girl to her mysterious guardian who will be "sick" near Paris. Once under way, Villa Rocca will not stop till the girl is in his Italian manor. With bounding heart, he assents. He has now Natalie's promise to marry him. They are one in heart. "I am yours to the death," he says.
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