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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Do you call the sixty thousand francs that you pocketed for those that were in your fields down by the Loire, folly?" said Maitre Cruchot, opening his eyes with amazement. "What luck you have had! To cut down your trees at the very time they ran short of white-wood at Nantes, and to sell them at thirty francs!"
Suppose they are sent off empty-handed for once, faith! they'll come back." "Yes, but let us mind what we are about," said Grandet in a tone which made the president tremble. "Is he driving some bargain?" thought Cruchot. At this moment the knocker announced the des Grassins family, and their arrival interrupted a conversation which had begun between Madame Grandet and the abbe.
This is how business should be done. Life is a business. I bless you! you are a virtuous girl, and you love your father. Do just what you like in future. To-morrow, Cruchot," he added, looking at the horrified notary, "you will see about preparing the deed of relinquishment, and then enter it on the records of the court."
So that when, after a game of boston or an evening discussion on the matter of vines, the talk fell upon Monsieur Grandet, knowing people said: "Le Pere Grandet? le Pere Grandet must have at least five or six millions." "You are cleverer than I am; I have never been able to find out the amount," answered Monsieur Cruchot or Monsieur des Grassins, when either chanced to overhear the remark.
"Life is very hard! It has many griefs! Cruchot," he continued solemnly, "you would not deceive me? Swear to me upon your honor that all you've told me is legally true. Show me the law; I must see the law!" "My poor friend," said the notary, "don't I know my own business?" "Then it is true! I am robbed, betrayed, killed, destroyed by my own daughter!"
He would be half an hour late as it was, and the sergeant was bound to be angry. He put the mules into a faster trot. The more Ah Cho persisted in explaining the mistake, the more stubborn Cruchot became. The knowledge that he had the wrong man did not make his temper better. The knowledge that it was through no mistake of his confirmed him in the belief that the wrong he was doing was the right.
In short, she is her mother's heir, and you are not." These words fell like a thunderbolt on the old man, who was not as wise about law as he was about business. He had never thought of a legal division of the estate. "Therefore I advise you to treat her kindly," added Cruchot, in conclusion. "But do you know what she has done, Cruchot?"
"It is true that your daughter is her mother's heir." "Why do we have children? Ah! my wife, I love her! Luckily she's sound and healthy; she's a Bertelliere." "She has not a month to live." Grandet struck his forehead, went a few steps, came back, cast a dreadful look on Cruchot, and said, "What can be done?" "Eugenie can relinquish her claim to her mother's property.
"But you must let me pay your yes, your passage to the Indies. Yes, I wish to pay your passage because d'ye see, my boy? in valuing your jewels I estimated only the weight of the gold; very likely the workmanship is worth something. So let us settle it that I am to give you fifteen hundred francs in livres; Cruchot will lend them to me.
See, now, you could pay for as many masses as you want for anybody Hein! a hundred francs a month in livres?" "I will do all you wish, father." "Mademoiselle," said the notary, "it is my duty to point out to you that you are despoiling yourself without guarantee " "Good heavens! what is all that to me?" "Hold your tongue, Cruchot!
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