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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I am going to loiter about the market-place and find Cruchot." "Eugenie, your father certainly has something on his mind." Grandet, who was a poor sleeper, employed half his nights in the preliminary calculations which gave such astonishing accuracy to his views and observations and schemes, and secured to them the unfailing success at sight of which his townsmen stood amazed.
"You are very funny," he said at last. Ah Cho nodded and beamed more ardently. Unlike the magistrate, Cruchot spoke to him in the Kanaka tongue, and this, like all Chinagos and all foreign devils, Ah Cho understood. "You laugh too much," Cruchot chided. "One's heart should be full of tears on a day like this." "I am glad to get out of the jail." "Is that all?" The gendarme shrugged his shoulders.
"Good God!" exclaimed the notary. "Well, what?" cried Grandet; and at the same moment Cruchot put the newspaper under his eyes and said: "Read that!" "Monsieur Grandet, one of the most respected merchants in Paris, blew his brains out yesterday, after making his usual appearance at the Bourse.
The three des Grassins likewise had their adherents, their cousins, their faithful allies. On the Cruchot side the abbe, the Talleyrand of the family, well backed-up by his brother the notary, sharply contested every inch of ground with his female adversary, and tried to obtain the rich heiress for his nephew the president.
"Well, then! let us settle it all to-night." "What is it you wish me to do?" "My little girl, it is not for me to say. Tell her, Cruchot." "Mademoiselle, your father does not wish to divide the property, nor sell the estate, nor pay enormous taxes on the ready money which he may possess.
For this one, Maitre Cruchot had procured the money required for the purchase of a domain, but at eleven per cent. For that one, Monsieur des Grassins discounted bills of exchange, but at a frightful deduction of interest. Few days ever passed that Monsieur Grandet's name was not mentioned either in the markets or in social conversations at the evening gatherings.
Although old Cruchot and Monsieur des Grassins were both gifted with the deep discretion which wealth and trust beget in the provinces, they publicly testified so much respect to Monsieur Grandet that observers estimated the amount of his property by the obsequious attention which they bestowed upon him.
He did not know what went on in the minds of his superiors. They knew their business best. Who was he to do their thinking for them? Once, in the long ago, he had attempted to think for them, and the sergeant had said: "Cruchot, you are a fool? The quicker you know that, the better you will get on. You are not to think; you are to obey and leave thinking to your betters."
Hégisippe Cruchot laughed and twirled his little brows mustache. "If you think so much of it," said he, "you can acquit your debt in full by offering me another absinthe to drink the health of the three." "Why, of course," said Septimus. Hégisippe, who was sitting next the door, twisted his head round and shouted his order to those within.
"Take care, you will love him!" "Love him!" answered Eugenie. "Ah! if you did but know what my father said to Monsieur Cruchot." Charles turned over, and saw his aunt and cousin. "I have lost my father, my poor father! If he had told me his secret troubles we might have worked together to repair them. My God! my poor father!
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