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"Very good, it is a bargain," said la Pouraille with savage glee. "You order, and I obey." And he hugged Jacques Collin in his arms, while tears of joy stood in his eyes, so hopeful did he feel of saving his head. "That is not all," said Jacques Collin; "the public prosecutor does not swallow everything, you know, especially when a new count is entered against you.
"At this moment, Monsieur de Granville, Jacques Collin is buried with Lucien, who is being now sprinkled with holy water and carried away to Pere-Lachaise. What I want is a place not to live in, but to die in. As things are, you, representing Justice, have never cared to make the released convict's social status a concern of any interest.
"Monsieur," said Jacques Collin, seeing the warder outside the door, and not understanding why the governor had left them, "I should think nothing of thirty thousand francs if I might send five lines to Lucien de Rubempre." "I will not rob you of your money," said Doctor Lebrun; "no one in this world can ever communicate with him again " "No one?" said the prisoner in amazement. "Why?"
"I was about to suggest that you should bind me hand and foot," Jacques Collin coolly added, with an ominous glare at the two gentlemen. He paused, and then said with great gravity: "Monsieur le Comte, you had my esteem, but you now command my admiration." "Then you think you are formidable?" said the magistrate, with a look of supreme contempt. "Think myself formidable?" retorted the convict.
So, as she saw the terrible couple come into her shop, she turned as pale as death. "We want to speak to you on business, madame," said Jacques Collin. "My husband is in there," said she. "Very well; we have no immediate need of you. I never put people out of their way for nothing." "Send for a hackney coach, my dear," said Jacqueline Collin, "and tell my god-daughter to come down.
The public prosecutor went to the door of the Countess' room, and remained there a few minutes; then he turned to Jacques Collin and said: "You have not changed your mind?" "No, monsieur." "Well, then, you will take Bibi-Lupin's place, and Calvi's sentence will be commuted." "And he is not to be sent to Rochefort?" "Not even to Toulon; you may employ him in your service.
Immediately a public safe-conduct was made out for all travelers to Bern, and attendance at the Conference recommended to all belonging to the canton, especially to the priests, who had not yet joined in the Reformation; but Zwingli, who had urgently begged for permission, was commanded to go thither, and the learned Pellikan and Collin, along with the preacher Megander, to assist him, all at the expense of the government.
"This partnership, if the identity of the Spaniard with Jacques Collin can be proved, must involve the condemnation of Lucien de Rubempre. "The sudden death of Peyrade, the police agent, is attributable to poison administered at the instigation of Jacques Collin, Rubempre, or their accomplices.
Jacques Collin, lost in his absorbing thoughts, and taking no interest in himself, regarding himself as a garment with no body in it, a perfect rag, never suspected the trap laid for him by Bibi-Lupin, nor the importance attaching to his walk in the prison-yard.
"What do you say to this, Amelie?" "It is frightful!" repled his wife. "Go on." "The transformation of the convict Jacques Collin into a Spanish priest is the result of some crime more clever than that by which Coignard made himself Comte de Sainte-Helene." "Lucien de Rubempre.
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