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"Know what?" Ah Cho was beginning to feel a vague alarm. "Won't Schemmer let me work for him any more?" "Not after to-day." Cruchot laughed heartily. It was a good joke. "You see, you won't be able to work after to-day. A man with his head off can't work, eh?" He poked the Chinago in the ribs, and chuckled. Ah Cho maintained silence while the mules trotted a hot mile.
His gloves, thick as those of a gendarme, lasted him twenty months; to preserve them, he always laid them methodically on the brim of his hat in one particular spot. Saumur knew nothing further about this personage. Only six individuals had a right of entrance to Monsieur Grandet's house. The most important of the first three was a nephew of Monsieur Cruchot.
"Oh, don't talk of it in that calm way suppose you had been killed!" "I suppose the Zouave would have buried me he's such a helpful creature, you know. He's been in Algiers. He says I ought to go there. His name is Hégisippe Cruchot." "But what about the flat?" asked Emmy.
"In asking Zora Middlemist to give up her trip to California, just for the sake of the Cure." "It's worth the sacrifice," Sypher maintained. "To you, yes; but it mayn't be so to her." "But she believes in the thing as I do myself!" cried Sypher. "Why should she, any more than I, or Hégisippe Cruchot? If she did, she would have stayed. It would have been her duty.
During the year 1827 her father, feeling the weight of his infirmities, was obliged to initiate her still further into the secrets of his landed property, and told her that in case of difficulty she was to have recourse to Maitre Cruchot, whose integrity was well known to him. Towards the end of this year the old man, then eighty-two, was seized by paralysis, which made rapid progress. Dr.
"Are you going for a mere nothing," resumed Cruchot, "to put obstacles in the way of the concessions which you will be obliged to ask from your daughter as soon as her mother dies?" "Do you call six thousand francs a mere nothing?" "Hey! my old friend, do you know what the inventory of your wife's property will cost, if Eugenie demands the division?" "How much?"
God, who sees all and never strikes amiss, punished him, no doubt, for his sordid calculations and the legal cleverness with which, accurante Cruchot, he had drawn up his marriage contract, in which husband and wife gave to each other, "in case they should have no children, their entire property of every kind, landed or otherwise, without exception or reservation, dispensing even with the formality of an inventory; provided that said omission of said inventory shall not injure their heirs and assigns, it being understood that this deed of gift is, etc., etc."
All the tradesmen in the tortuous old street were on the sill of their shop-doors to watch the procession, which was joined in the market-place by Maitre Cruchot. "Eugenie, be sure you don't cry," said her mother. "Nephew," said Grandet, in the doorway of the inn from which the coach started, kissing Charles on both cheeks, "depart poor, return rich; you will find the honor of your father safe.
Should she do this you would not disinherit her, I presume? but if you want to come to such a settlement, you must not treat her harshly. What I am telling you, old man, is against my own interests. What do I live by, if it isn't liquidations, inventories, conveyances, divisions of property? "We'll see, we'll see! Don't let's talk any more about it, Cruchot; it wrings my vitals.
"I quite agree with you," said Sypher. "It can't make two legs grow where one grew before, but it ought to cure blisters on the heel. Apparently it won't. So we are where we were before I met Monsieur Hégisippe Cruchot. The only thing is that we mustn't now lead people to suppose that it's good for blisters." "They must take their chance," said Dennymede.
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