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Updated: May 24, 2025
'Convey my compliments and sympathy to Claparon, poor buffer, for I shall file this business under the letter Z. "All this with an easy good-humor fit to give a virtuous citizen the colic. "'You are wrong, Monsieur le Comte, retorted Cerizet, in a slightly peremptory tone. 'We will be paid in full, and that in a way which you may not like.
On the evening of that sad day Agathe refused to play at cards, and sat on her sofa plunged in such grief that the tears stood in her handsome eyes. "What is the matter, Madame Bridau?" asked old Claparon.
Say that we are engaged in a transaction on equal shares; you provide the money for your share, I give bills for mine; I offer them to you, and you undertake, purely out of kindness, to convert them into money. Of course not; you would be mad to do it. Well, Monsieur Lebas, Birotteau is in the position which I have supposed for Claparon.
The firm of Claparon did business on too large a scale, the capital was locked up, the concern ceased to serve its purposes, or to pay dividends, though the speculations were sound. These misfortunes coincided with the events of 1827. In 1829 it was too well known that Claparon was a man of straw set up by the two giants; he fell from his pedestal.
"Faith!" said Claparon, "children do tyrannize over us over our hearts, I mean. Mine makes me furious; he has nearly ruined me, and now I won't have anything to do with him it's a sort of independence. Well, he is the happier for it, and so am I. That fellow was partly the cause of his mother's death.
"No one has come but Monsieur Lempereur." "He can receive the great people," said Claparon; "the small fry are not to get beyond the first room. They are to say I'm cogitating a great enterprise in champagne." To make an old commercial traveller drunk is an impossibility. Cesar mistook the elation of the man's vulgarity when he attempted to sound his mind.
"The limit for bidding-in is passed," thought Theodose, as he went to find Dutocq and ask him to bring Cerizet to his office. "Suppose I were now to make an effort to get rid of my leech?" "You can't settle this affair anywhere but at Cerizet's, because Claparon must be present, and he is hiding there," said Dutocq.
Nucingen had never a nephew, he dared not take a confidant; yet he must have a devoted and intelligent Claparon, a born diplomatist with a good manner, a man worthy of him, and fit to take office under government. Such connections are not made in a day nor yet in a year.
"So much the worse for the other guest," he thought, meaning to make Claparon drunk, and to find out who were his real associates in an affair which began to look suspicious to him. "All right! Victoire!" called the banker. This call brought a regular Leonarde, tricked out like a fish-woman. "Tell the clerks that I can't see any one, not even Nucingen, Keller, Gigonnet, and all the rest of them."
I want five hundred thousand francs before I strike " "Who talks of stinting you?" asked Castanier, cutting him short. "You should have more gold than you could stow in the cellars of the Bank of France." He held out a handful of notes. That decided Claparon. "Done," he cried; "but how is the bargain to be made?"
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