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Just at this point his old housekeeper came in with signs of alarm in her countenance. "Is the house on fire, Brigitte?" "Something of the sort," said she. "Here is M. du Croisier wanting to speak to you " "M. du Croisier," repeated the old lawyer. A stab of cold misgiving gave him so sharp a pang at the heart that he dropped the tongs. "M. du Croisier here!" thought he, "our chief enemy!"
He had nothing left to lose for the d'Esgrignons but his soul; he risked it now by this horrible perjury, but Mme. du Croisier must be deceived, there was no other choice but death.
You will decide which is the more credible a slip of memory on the part of a woman in her ignorance of business, or a forgery committed by a d'Esgrignon." "All this is beside the point," began Camusot; "the question is, whether M. le Comte d'Esgrignon has or has not used the lower half of a letter addressed to him by du Croisier as a bill of exchange."
Du Croisier was in correspondence with the Brothers Keller, the bankers, the oldest of whom shone conspicuous among "the nineteen deputies of the Left," that phalanx made famous by the efforts of the entire Liberal press.
"I wish that we, my wife and I, should be received familiarly every evening, with an appearance of friendliness at any rate, by M. le Marquis d'Esgrignon and his circle," continued du Croisier. "I do not know how we are going to compass it, but you shall be received."
The loyal Frank was quite capable of killing his son or du Croisier; for either the one or the other must have been guilty of death in his eyes. It chanced, strangely enough, that he talked more of Victurnien than usual; he was glad that his son had gone back to Paris. The King would give Victurnien a place before very long; the King was interesting himself at last in the d'Esgrignons.
The father and son have a million of francs between them; they will double it with du Croisier's help, for du Croisier has business connections among great capitalists and manufacturers in Paris. M. and Mme.
It was a just regret due to that distinguished man, in whom very extensive information was united with great courage and amiable disposition. On the 10th of May; when an assault took place, Bonaparte proceeded at an early hour to the trenches. Croisier, who was mentioned on our arrival at Damanhour and on the capture of Jaffa, had in vain courted death since the commencement of the siege.
Chesnel brought her his last bag of louis; she took it, without paying any attention to it, as she took her white capuchine and thread mittens. "Generous girl! What grace!" he said, as he put her into the carriage with her maid, a woman who looked like a gray sister. Du Croisier had thought out his revenge, as provincials think out everything.
But there is an end of it; the world is falling to pieces," the old man continued, sinking exhausted into a chair. "Du Croisier is a tiger; we must be careful not to rouse him. What time is it? Where is the draft? If it is at Paris, it might be bought back from the Kellers; they might accommodate us. Ah! but there are dangers on all sides; a single false step means ruin.
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