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"Isn't it better to have somebody who knows the workshop?" asked the fat Cointet. Eve made no reply; she took leave of the brothers, vowing inwardly to look after Cerizet. "Well, here are our enemies in the place!" laughed David, when Eve brought out the papers for his signature at dinner-time. "Pshaw!" said she, "I will answer for Kolb and Marion; they alone would look after things.
Upon this debt, tall Cointet forthwith erected a formidable engine, pointed, as will presently be seen, against the poor, patient inventor.
Monsieur Sechard, though he is very well off they say he might have made millions if he had not allowed himself to be robbed of an invention in the paper-making of which the brothers Cointet are getting the benefit " "Ah, to be sure, the Brothers Cointet!" said Corentin. "Hold your tongue," said the innkeeper.
When September arrived, the tall Cointet took David aside, and, learning that the latter meditated a crowning experiment, dissuaded him from further attempts. "Go to Marsac, my dear David, see your wife, and take a rest after your labors; we don't want to ruin ourselves," said Cointet in the friendliest way. "This great triumph of yours, after all, is only a starting-point.
"You are a schoolfellow of David Sechard's, are you not?" asked tall Cointet by way of greeting to the young attorney. Petit-Claud had lost no time in answering the wealthy manufacturer's summons. "Yes, sir," said Petit-Claud, keeping step with tall Cointet. "Have you renewed the acquaintance?" "We have met once or twice at most since he came back. It could hardly have been otherwise.
But though the Sechard household had money sufficient that winter, they were none the less subjected to Cerizet's espionage, and all unconsciously became dependent upon Boniface Cointet. "We have them now!" the manager of the paper-mill had exclaimed as he left the house with his brother the printer.
Petit-Claud took the tall Cointet by the arm, saying aloud, "If we are going to dine with Mme. de Senonches, it is time to dress." When they had come away a few paces, he added, for his companion's benefit, "Catch the cub, and you will soon have the dam; we have David now " "I have found you a wife, find me a partner," said the tall Cointet with a treacherous smile.
Boniface was called "tall Cointet" to distinguish him from his brother, "fat Cointet," and the nicknames expressed a difference in character as well as a physical difference between a pair of equally redoubtable personages.
Now, "a man" so invariably means "a peasant," that Doublon said, "Tell him to wait," and Kolb took a seat close to the door of the private office. There were voices talking within. "Ah, by the by, how do you mean to set about it? For, if we can catch him to-morrow, it will be so much time saved." It was the fat Cointet who spoke.
To-night, however, we must keep a close watch over Lucien and Mme. la Comtesse du Chatelet, for the whole business lies in that. . . . If Lucien hopes to succeed through the Countess' influence, I have David safe " "You will be Keeper of the Seals yet, it is my belief," said Cointet. "And why not? No one objects to M. de Peyronnet," said Petit-Claud.
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