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Updated: September 25, 2025
"We must get into chinks to listen, and wait " "We will study that side of the subject," cried Corentin. "For the present, I am out of work. You, Peyrade, be a very good boy. We must always obey Monsieur le Prefet!" "Monsieur de Nucingen wants bleeding," said Contenson; "he has too many banknotes in his veins."
These ices had been ordered by Madame du Val-Noble of Tortoni, whose shop is at the corner of the Rue Taitbout and the Boulevard. The cook called Contenson out of the room to pay the bill. Contenson, who thought this demand on the part of the shop-boy rather strange, went downstairs and startled him by saying: "Then you have not come from Tortoni's?" and then went straight upstairs again.
He pulled himself up by the skylight of his garret, and with marvelous agility was standing in an instant on the roof, whence he surveyed the surroundings with the coolness of a tiler. "Good!" said he, discerning a garden five houses off in the Rue de Provence, "that will just do for me." "You are paid out, Trompe-la-Mort," said Contenson, suddenly emerging from behind a stack of chimneys.
"You are off your head, Monsieur le Baron," said Louchard; "there is a third endorsement." "Yes, dere is a tird endorsement Cerizet! A man of de opposition." "Will you write an order on your cashier, Monsieur le Baron?" said Louchard. "I will send Contenson to him and dismiss my men. It is getting late, and everybody will know that " "Go den, Contenson," said Nucingen.
This was the idea that rose to some clear and shrewd minds as they looked at Contenson over their spectacles, while affecting to read the news.
Corentin or Contenson would go into the matter and reply: "Twenty, thirty, or forty thousand francs." Then, as soon as the order was given to go ahead, all the means and the men were left to the judgment of Corentin or the agent selected. And the criminal police used to act in the same way to discover crimes with the famous Vidocq.
The lady at the desk and the waiter examined the coin with a minute care that was not flattering to Contenson; but their suspicions were justified by the astonishment produced on all the regular customers by Contenson's appearance. "Was that gold got by theft or by murder?"
"I shall want you, no doubt," replied Peyrade. "Look up numbers 7, 10, and 21; we can employ those men without any one finding it out, either at the Police Ministry or at the Prefecture." Contenson went back to a post near the carriage in which Monsieur de Nucingen was waiting for Peyrade. "I am Monsieur de Saint-Germain," said Peyrade to the Baron, raising himself to look over the carriage door.
This perhaps explains why the Minister declined to employ Peyrade and Contenson, on whom Corentin contrived to cast the Minister's suspicions, in order to be able to make use of his friend when his reinstatement was evidently out of the question.
But look here, Monsieur le Baron, make it six hundred, and I will give you a bit of advice." "Gif it, and trust to my generosity." "I will risk it," Contenson said, "but it is playing high. In such matters, you see, we have to work underground. You say, 'Quick march! You are rich; you think that money can do everything. Well, money is something, no doubt.
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