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"Your brother is a hundred miles away from suicide, and when all comes to all, perhaps you will have a little fortune this evening. A bona-fide purchaser for the business has turned up." "If that is the case," said Eve, "why should we not wait awhile before binding ourselves to the Cointets?" Petit-Claud saw the danger.
Eve made a rough calculation of the resources of the printing office and of the output, and saw how little hope there was for a business drained dry by the all-devouring activity of the brothers Cointet; for by this time the Cointets were not only contract printers to the town and the prefecture, and printers to the Diocese by special appointment they were paper-makers and proprietors of a newspaper to boot.
The Cointets had tried to ruin the Sechards by accusing them of Liberalism, and by so doing gave them a plank to cling to the Sechards should keep the Liberal business. Sell the paper indeed! Why, you might as well sell the stock-in-trade and the license!"
He knows very well that I cheated him over the first partnership, and he will not care to try a second; so it is to my interest to keep him shut up, the wretched boy." The Cointets knew enough of Sechard senior to see that they should hunt in couples. All three said to themselves "Experiments must be tried before the discovery can take any practical shape.
Sechard; and she, seeing at once that the signature was not in her husband's handwriting, sent for David and asked him point-blank: "You did not put your name to that bill, did you?" "No," said he; "your brother was so pressed for time that he signed for me." Eve returned the bill to the bank messenger sent by the Cointets.
The Cointets, Cerizet, and Petit-Claud all the men whom Eve felt instinctively to be her enemies had turned hard, indifferent eyes on her; with the deputy-magistrate, therefore, she felt at ease, although, in spite of his kindly courtesy, he swept all her hopes away by his first words.
In the long length the Cointets had come to understand David's character and habits.
The Cointets, well pleased with his "craze," as they called it, behaved to all appearance both fairly and handsomely; but, as a matter of fact, they were adopting the tactics of the mail-coach owners who set up a sham opposition coach to keep bona fide rivals out of the field.
The Cointets will come this evening, and you shall see if I can defend your interests." "Ah! monsieur, I should be very glad," said Eve. "Very well," said Petit-Claud; "this evening, at seven o'clock." "Thank you," said Eve; and from her tone and glance Petit-Claud knew that he had made great progress in his fair client's confidence. "You have nothing to fear; you see I was right," he added.
"Here am I doing five francs' worth of composing for two francs a day, and don't you think that that is enough? Why, if I did not read proofs of an evening for the Cointets, I might feed myself on husks." "You are turning ungrateful early," said Eve, deeply hurt, not so much by Cerizet's grumbling as by his coarse tone, threatening attitude, and aggressive stare; "you will get on in life."
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