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Here are the twelve louis caution-money, so you can get the magistrate's order, and we will meet again to-morrow." "Give me his name, and yours also." I returned in haste to the "Treize Cantons," and met the abbe, dressed up to the nines, and just about to go out. "Follow me," said I, "I am going to take you to Marcoline, and you shall have an explanation in her presence." "With pleasure."
Here are the twelve louis caution-money, so you can get the magistrate's order, and we will meet again to-morrow." "Give me his name, and yours also." I returned in haste to the "Treize Cantons," and met the abbe, dressed up to the nines, and just about to go out. "Follow me," said I, "I am going to take you to Marcoline, and you shall have an explanation in her presence." "With pleasure."
I asked him if I could have a foreign abbe, who was indebted to me, arrested, although I had no proof of the debt. "You can do so, as he is a foreigner, but you will have to pay caution-money. You can have him put under arrest at his inn, and you can make him pay unless he is able to prove that he owes you nothing. Is the sum a large one?" "Twelve louis."
Finot, as high priest, sprinkled a few drops of champagne on Lucien's golden curls, pronouncing with delicious gravity the words "In the name of the Government Stamp, the Caution-money, and the Fine, I baptize thee, Journalist. May thy articles sit lightly on thee!" "And may they be paid for, including white lines!" cried Merlin. Just at that moment Lucien caught sight of three melancholy faces.
Newspaper advertising, the offspring of heavy stamp duties, a high rate of postage, and the heavy deposits of caution-money required by the government as security for good behavior, is within the reach of all who care to pay for it, and has turned the fourth page of every journal into a harvest field alike for the speculator and the Inland Revenue Department.
The comprador has no fixed salary, but receives a stated per-centage upon all business transactions: his per-centage upon the household expenses is not fixed, but is not on that account less certain. On the whole, these compradors are very trustworthy. They pay down a certain sum, as caution-money, to some mandarin, and the latter answers for them.
"Daddy Gobseck's face relaxed; he looked pleased with me. "'I shall pay the money over to your principal myself, said he, 'so as to establish a lien on the purchase and caution-money. "'Oh, anything you like in the way of guarantees. "'Well, so long as it is acknowledged in writing that this is a double "'No! Gobseck broke in upon me. 'No! Why should I trust you any more than you trust me?
"But are you faithful to us?" she said at last, with a winning glance at des Lupeaulx, as if to attach him to her. "That is as it may be," he replied, answering her glance with an interrogative look which made the poor woman blush. "If you demand caution-money you may lose all," she said, laughing; "I thought you more magnanimous than you are.
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