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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.
The Treasury satisfied him on this point by agreeing to sanction the bargain with Desprez, and Ouvrard proceeded to Madrid. It was on this occasion he entered into the immense speculation for trading with Spanish America.
Until the sun of the Positive arose, the wise man had to make his choice between these two. 'I have been a buffoon, of course, observed Jean-Marie. 'I cannot imagine you to have excelled in your profession, said the Doctor, admiring the boy's gravity. 'Do you ever laugh? 'Oh, yes, replied the other. 'I laugh often. I am very fond of jokes. 'Singular being! said Desprez.
He entirely ignored the two young English painters, turning a blind eyeglass to their salutations, and continuing his remarks as if he were alone in the bosom of his family; and with every second word he ripped another stitch out of the air-balloon of Desprez' vanity. By the time coffee was over the poor Doctor was as limp as a napkin. "Let us go and see the ruins," said Casimir.
The hamper was so heavy and large, and Jean-Marie himself so little and so weary, that it had taken him a great while to bundle it upstairs to the Desprez' private room; and he had just set it down on the floor in front of Anastasie, when the Doctor arrived, and was closely followed by the man of business.
"And how is our patient?" asked Desprez. It appeared the patient was about the same. "And why do you rise early in the morning?" he pursued. Jean-Marie, after a long silence, professed that he hardly knew. "You hardly know?" repeated Desprez. "We hardly know anything, my man, until we try to learn. Interrogate your consciousness. Come, push me this inquiry home. Do you like it?"
He looked right and left, and there was Desprez, standing in a niche between two boulders, and looking round on his adopted son with a countenance as white as paper. 'A viper! cried Jean-Marie, running towards him. 'A viper! You are bitten! The Doctor came down heavily out of the cleft, and, advanced in silence to meet the boy, whom he took roughly by the shoulder.
'Henri, people will be coming, she screamed in her husband's ear. 'I trust so, he replied. 'They cannot. I would rather die, she wailed. 'My dear, said the Doctor reprovingly, 'you are excited. I gave you some clothes. What have you done with them? 'Oh, I don't know I must have thrown them away! Where are they? she sobbed. Desprez groped about in the darkness.
For all that, he despatched the invalid with unusual haste, and, still kneeling with one knee on the floor, turned a little round and looked the boy over at his leisure. The boy was not in the least put out, but looked placidly back at the Doctor. 'Is this your father? asked Desprez. 'Oh, no, returned the boy; 'my master. 'Are you fond of him? continued the Doctor. 'No, sir, said the boy.
'And so I suppose, said the Doctor, with a rising sneer, 'you prayed God to forgive you, and explained the case to Him at length. 'Why, sir? asked Jean-Marie. 'I do not see. 'Your priest would see, however, retorted Desprez. 'Would he? asked the boy, troubled for the first time. 'I should have thought God would have known. 'Eh? snarled the Doctor.
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