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Many a time Cerizet, who was born among the people, corrected from one week to another some accidental error, to the benefit of a poor man who had never discovered it. He was called a Jew, but an honest one, and his word in that city of sorrows was sacred. Author's note. "See my profits! there they go!" he said to his assemblage, "and you howl upon me!
"Monsieur Cerizet," said la Peyrade, beginning to assume a protecting tone, and wishing to discover his late associate's place in Corentin's confidence, "you seem to know a good deal about the secret intentions of the government; have you found your way to a certain desk in the rue de Grenelle?" "No. All that I tell you," said Cerizet, "I get from du Portail."
"That's not bad," said du Portail; "but there's another and even more conclusive use to be made of the discovery." "Tell me, master; I'm listening," said Cerizet. "Thuillier has not yet been able, has he, to explain to himself the reason of the seizure of the pamphlet?" "Yes, he has," replied Cerizet.
The only other servant is an old valet named Bruneau; he does everything, except cook." "But the binder and the stitcher down below," returned Cerizet, "they begin work very early in the morning Well, anyhow, we must study the matter," he added, in the tone of a man whose plans are not yet decided.
What would Henriette say in a court of law? I do not want to ruin you," he added hastily, seeing how white Cerizet's face grew. "You want something more of me?" cried Cerizet. "Well, here it is," said Petit-Claud. "Follow me carefully. You will be a master printer in Angouleme in two months' time . . . but you will not have paid for your business you will not pay for it in ten years.
Cerizet was only thirty-eight years old, but he looked a man of fifty, so aged had he become from causes which age all men. His hairless head had a yellow skull, ill-covered by a rusty, discolored wig; the mask of his face, pale, flabby, and unnaturally rough, seemed the more horrible because the nose was eaten away, though not sufficiently to admit of its being replaced by a false one.
Is Cerizet wrong in thinking you have twenty-five thousand francs in your desk? He says you offered them to him and he thinks it only natural not to leave them in your hands." "Thank you for taking the step, my good friend," replied Theodose. "I have been expecting this attack." "Between ourselves," replied Desroches, "you have made an utter fool of him, and he is furious.
In short, during the whole day, la Peyrade had not shown himself the able and infallible man that we have hitherto seen him. Once before, when he carried the fifteen thousand francs entrusted to him by Thuillier, he had been led by Cerizet into an insurrectionary proceeding which necessitated the affair of Sauvaignou.
These things are not right, especially when you see that I, his wife, respect his secrets, and take so much trouble on myself to leave him free to give himself up to his work. If you had not wasted time, the almanac would be finished by now, and Kolb would be selling it, and the Cointets could have done us no harm." "Eh! madame," answered Cerizet.
I put him to composing; anything that he is he owes to me, in fact! You might as well ask a father if he is sure of his child." Upon this, Eve told her husband that Cerizet was reading proofs for the Cointets. "Poor fellow! he must live," said David, humbled by the consciousness that he had not done his duty as a master.
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