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Theodose therefore clung to this rope, resolving to do battle, on so poor a base of operations, with the vanity of a fool, which, according to individual character, is either granite or sand. On reflection, Theodose was inclined to be content with the prospect. On the evening before the right of redemption expired, Claparon and Cerizet proceeded to manipulate the notary in the following manner.
No one among the very ordinary persons who made the society of the two widows neither old Du Bruel nor old Claparon, nor Desroches the father, nor even the Abbe Loraux, Agathe's confessor noticed Joseph's faculty for observation. Absorbed in the line of his own tastes, the future colorist paid no attention to anything that concerned himself.
The two adversaries had been speaking, we should here remark, in a manner not to be overheard; and every time that Theodose raised his voice Cerizet would make a gesture, intimating that Claparon, from above, might be listening. The five minutes during which Theodose heard what seemed to be the murmuring of two voices were torture to him, for he had staked his very life upon the issue.
"He hopes for the work; he says that to screw something out of you." "Can he take in such men as Pillerault, as Charles Claparon, as Roguin? The profit is as sure as that of the Paste of Sultans." "But, my dear friend, why should Roguin speculate? He gets his commissions, and his fortune is made.
"It is abstract commerce," said Claparon, "commerce which won't be developed for ten years to come, according to Nucingen, the Napoleon of finance; commerce by which a man can grasp the totality of fractions, and skim the profits before there are any. Gigantic idea! one way of pouring hope into pint cups, in short, a new necromancy!
Come here, my love," said Madame Ragon, in her shrill voice and patronizing manner. "Shall we do the business before dinner?" asked uncle Pillerault. "We are waiting for Monsieur Claparon," said Roguin, "I left him dressing himself." "Monsieur Roguin," said Cesar, "I hope you told him that we should dine in a wretched little room on the entresol "
The men who form the moving crowd that fills the Stock Exchange are soon known to each other by sight. They watch each other like players round a card-table. Some shrewd observers can tell how a man will play and the condition of his exchequer from a survey of his face; and the Stock Exchange is simply a vast card-table. Every one, therefore, had noticed Claparon and Castanier.
"Ah! monsieur is Monsieur Lebas?" interrupted Claparon. "Delighted with the opportunity, Monsieur Lebas of the commercial courts; there are so many Lebas, you know, of one kind or another " "He has seen," said Birotteau, cutting the gabbler short, "the notes which I gave you, and which I understood from you would not be put into circulation. He has seen them bearing the words 'not guaranteed."
"He once said to me," interrupted La Palferine, "'My one affectation is the pretence that I make of living in the Rue Pigalle." "Well," resumed Desroches, "he was one of the combatants; and now for the other. You have heard more or less talk of one Claparon?" "Had hair like this!" cried Bixiou, ruffling his locks till they stood on end.
"Neither you nor Philippe should manage this delicate matter," she urged. "Our two old friends Du Bruel and Claparon are dead, but we still have Desroches, who is very sagacious. I'll go and see him this morning.
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