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In the midst of his own haziness of mind produced by the champagne, he did, however, recollect a name spoken by du Tillet; and he asked Claparon who Gobseck the banker was, and where he lived. "Have you got as far as that?" said Claparon. "Gobseck is a banker, just as the headsman is a doctor.
On Sunday, the day Cesar had appointed to conclude the affair of the lands about the Madeleine, Monsieur and Madame Ragon, and uncle Pillerault arrived about four o'clock, just after vespers. In view of the demolition that was going on, so Cesar said, he could only invite Charles Claparon, Crottat, and Roguin.
"For I should have no rights in it; I should have to buy it over again; consequently, I repeat, I should have to pay for it three times." "Reimburse whom?" persisted Birotteau. "Why, the holder of the notes, if I were to endorse, and you were to fail." "I shall not fail, monsieur," said Birotteau. "Very good," said Claparon.
"There's my uncle talking politics," said Birotteau. "Monsieur Claparon has won his heart." "Devilish rogues, the newspapers," said Claparon. "Monsieur, the newspapers do all the mischief. They are useful sometimes, but they keep me awake many a night. I wish they didn't. I have put my eyes out reading and ciphering." "To go back to the ministers," said Pillerault, hoping for revelations.
"I shall be recognized," said Theodose, pulling Dutocq away; "we have done a foolish thing to come here at this hour and take him in the midst of his business." "All the more that Claparon may be sleeping in his lair, the interior of which we know nothing about.
Claparon, therefore, to that extent was playing a genuine part; and he told whoever would listen to him that Roguin had cost him a hundred thousand francs. Du Tillet thought Claparon was not bold enough, and fancied he had still too much honor and decency to make it safe to trust him with the full extent of his plans; and he knew him to be mentally incapable of conjecturing them.
"If he doesn't turn out a genius," said Du Bruel, who always tried to please Agathe, "you can then get him into some government office." When Madame Descoings accompanied the old clerks to the door she assured them, at the head of the stairs, that they were "Grecian sages." "Madame Bridau ought to be glad her son is willing to do anything," said Claparon.
He squeezed du Tillet's hand with an expression such as a woman's face wears when she is playing her neighbor a trick. "Martin Falleix came up. 'Well, have you heard the news? he asked. 'Nucingen has stopped payment. "'Pooh, said Werbrust, 'pray don't noise it about; give those that hold his paper a chance. "'What is the cause of the smash; do you know? put in Claparon.
He had drawn Claparon out of the crowd with the energy of a sick man in a fever fit; he had looked like an opium-eater during the brief period of excitement that the drug can give; now, on his return, he seemed to be in the condition of utter exhaustion in which the patient dies after the fever departs, or to be suffering from the horrible prostration that follows on excessive indulgence in the delights of narcotics.
Godeschal, now Derville's successor, had formerly been, for more than two years, head-clerk with Desroches. Theodose, to whom that circumstance was known, seemed to hear the name flung into his ear in the midst of his despair by an inward voice, and he foresaw a possibility of wrenching from the hands of Claparon the weapon with which Cerizet had threatened him.
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