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Perhaps the giving of this authority was a great error; but, be that as it may, Desprez, encouraged by the complaisance of the Treasury, desired the Receivers-General to transmit to him all the sums they could procure for payment of interest under 8 per cent., promising to allow them a higher rate of interest.
"Now, Anastasie, come on; it is your turn," said the husband. "I cannot," she replied. "Are we all to die of exposure, madame?" thundered Doctor Desprez. "You can go!" she cried. "Oh, go, go away! I can stay here; I am quite warm." The Doctor took her by the shoulders with an oath. "Stop!" she screamed. "I will put them on."
The hot blood of the Bonapartes boiled at this underhand dealing, and he at once despatched Colonel Desprez to Napoleon to demand Soult's instant recall. The Emperor, who was then at Moscow, temporized.
'I am afraid of it, said Jean-Marie: 'my stomach 'Take it or leave it, interrupted Desprez fiercely; 'but understand it once for all there is nothing so contemptible as a precisian. Here was a new lesson!
It was accompanied by a sickening movement of the whole house, and in the subsequent lull Desprez could hear the tiles pouring like a cataract into the loft above his head. He plucked Anastasie bodily out of bed. "Run!" he cried, thrusting some wearing apparel into her hands; "the house is falling! To the garden!" She did not pause to be twice bidden; she was down the stair in an instant.
This proceeding had become necessary on the part of the Bank, as Desprez, instead of making his payments in specie, sent in his acceptances. The Directors of the Bank, who conducted that establishment with great integrity and discretion, began to be alarmed, and required Desprez to explain the state of his affairs.
Jean-Marie opened the green gate and led in the horse and carriage; and almost at the same moment Madame Desprez came to the kitchen threshold with a lighted lantern; for the moon was not yet high enough to clear the garden walls. "Close the gates, Jean-Marie!" cried the Doctor, somewhat unsteadily alighting. "Anastasie, where is Aline?"
'O, my son, my son! And he sat down upon the hamper and sobbed like a little child. 'You will not go to Paris now, said Jean-Marie sheepishly. 'Casimir, said Desprez, raising his wet face, 'do you see that boy, that angel boy? He is the thief; he took the treasure from a man unfit to be entrusted with its use; he brings it back to me when I am sobered and humbled.
'I have found it, he said, with a gasp. 'A plant? asked Jean-Marie. Desprez had a fit of unnatural gaiety, which the rocks took up and mimicked. 'A plant! he repeated scornfully. 'Well yes a plant. And here, he added suddenly, showing his right hand, which he had hitherto concealed behind his back 'here is one of the bulbs. Jean-Marie saw a dirty platter, coated with earth. 'That? said he.
"Oh, my son, my son!" And he sat down upon the hamper and sobbed like a little child. "You will not go to Paris now," said Jean-Marie sheepishly. "Casimir," said Desprez, raising his wet face, "do you see that boy, that angel boy? He is the thief; he took the treasure from a man unfit to be entrusted with its use; he brings it back to me when I am sobered and humbled.
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