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Cayrol's face brightened. "You are right," he said. "Yes, as ever, you are right. You must excuse rile, I do not know how to talk to women. Rebuke her and put a little sense in her head. But don't leave her; she is fit to commit any folly." Madame Desvarennes smiled. "Be easy," she answered. And making a sign to Cayrol, who was leaving the room, she returned to Jeanne.
The gathering was numerous. Merchant-princes came for Madame Desvarennes's sake; bankers for Cayrol's; and the aristocrats and foreign nobility for the Prince's. An assemblage as opposed in ideas as in manners: some valuing only money, others high birth; all proud and elbowing each other with haughty assurance, speaking ill of each other and secretly jealous.
"What do you mean?" exclaimed the mother in agony. She read the truth in her daughter's eyes. "You know "she began. "That he is her lover," cried Micheline, interrupting her. "Don't you see that I am dying through it?" she added, sobbing bitterly and falling into her mother's arms. The mistress carried her as if she had been a child into Cayrol's private office, and shut the door.
The gathering was numerous. Merchant-princes came for Madame Desvarennes's sake; bankers for Cayrol's; and the aristocrats and foreign nobility for the Prince's. An assemblage as opposed in ideas as in manners: some valuing only money, others high birth; all proud and elbowing each other with haughty assurance, speaking ill of each other and secretly jealous.
"Well! I keep my promise. If you wish to know who your rival is, come home to-night." Some inaudible words rattled in Cayrol's throat. "A rival! in my house! Can Jeanne be guilty? Do you know, if it is true I will kill them both!" "Deal with them as your conscience dictates," said Madame Desvarennes. "I have acted according to mine."
"Well! I keep my promise. If you wish to know who your rival is, come home to-night." Some inaudible words rattled in Cayrol's throat. "A rival! in my house! Can Jeanne be guilty? Do you know, if it is true I will kill them both!" "Deal with them as your conscience dictates," said Madame Desvarennes. "I have acted according to mine."
After Cayrol's arrival, not knowing what to do, he had gone to the Universal Credit Company, and there, to his astonishment, had found the offices closed.
The secretary joined Madame Desvarennes, who had come with Pierre and had remained in Cayrol's private office. During this party matters of moment were to be discussed, and a consultation was about to take place between the interested parties. On seeing Marechal enter, Madame only uttered one word: "Cayrol?" "Here he is," answered the secretary. Cayrol came in, hurriedly.
Cayrol, less sanguine, and more practical, was afraid of the new scheme, and when Herzog spoke to him about it, said that things were well enough for him as they were, and that he would not be implicated in any fresh financial venture however promising. Cayrol's refusal had vexed Herzog.
"Ah! pride!" murmured Herzog. "After all it is your right It is you who pay!" Without answering a word the Prince went out. At that same hour, Madame Desvarennes, tired by long waiting, was pacing up and down her little drawing-room. A door opened and Marechal, the long-looked for messenger, appeared. He had been to Cayrol's, but could not see him.
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