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Updated: May 12, 2025
This disclosure was one of the cardinal events in Cesar's life. The nightly conversations when the shop was closed, the street quiet, the accounts regulated, made a fanatic of the Tourangian, who in becoming a royalist obeyed an inborn instinct.
"They will think you are abstracting large sums." "Then I will show them the letter." "They will say that it is a fraud." "My God! my God!" cried Birotteau. "I once thought thus of poor, unhappy people who were doubtless as I am now." Terribly anxious about Cesar's state, mother and daughter sat plying their needles by his side, in profound silence.
Derville, Birotteau's advocate, rushed into the handsome salon where Madame Cesar was using all her persuasion to retain her husband, who wished to sleep on the fifth floor, "that I may not see," he said, "these monuments of my folly." "The suit is won!" cried Derville. At these words Cesar's drawn face relaxed; but his joy alarmed Derville and Pillerault.
The soft signs of her tenderness, ever-present yet at the moment forced, instead of brightening Cesar's face made it more sombre, and brought the long-repressed tears into his eyes. Poor man! he had gone over this road twenty years before, young, prosperous, full of hope, the lover of a girl as beautiful as their own Cesarine; he was dreaming then of happiness.
As he worked, Cesar whistled a Russian melody, half sad, half cheerful, and Felix paused midway in the lighting of his cigar. It was the opening theme in the second movement of Tschaikovsky's Fourth Symphony; and Cesar's rendition of it was not only true to pitch but he managed to introduce certain nuances that to Felix proclaimed the born musician.
All Cesar's rights in the lands about the Madeleine were turned over to Monsieur Claparon, on condition that he on his side would abandon all claim against Birotteau for half the costs of drawing up and registering the contracts; also for all payments on the price of the lands, by receiving himself, under the failure, the dividend which was to be paid over to the sellers.
I will buy out Monsieur Cesar's share in this business for a hundred thousand francs, and that will give you an income to live on. Shall you not be happy?" "Tell me no more, Anselme, or I shall go out of my mind."
Anselme followed his master at a distance, without being able to define the reason why he suddenly felt an interest in a matter so apparently unimportant, and full of joy at the encouragement he derived from Cesar's mention of the hob-nailed shoes, the one louis, and love.
The engraving of Hero and Leander shone on one of the panels of Cesar's study. "Ah! thou wilt pay for all this," said Birotteau, looking gaily at it. "That beautiful engraving is given to you by Monsieur Anselme," said Cesarine. "Poor boy! he has done just as I did for Monsieur Vauquelin." The bedroom of Madame Birotteau came next.
"We know you by heart, Cesar," said little Ragon, taking Cesar's hands and pressing them with religious friendship. Roguin was not without anxiety as to Claparon's entrance on the scene; for his tone and manners were quite likely to alarm these virtuous and worthy people; he therefore thought it advisable to prepare their minds.
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