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Updated: June 27, 2025
She had given the Dujarrier receipts for all that that quasi-silent-partner had advanced her, the old lady excusing herself for the precaution she took by saying precisely: "In that way one can hold people. Grateful acknowledgments are good; written acknowledgments are better!" The Dujarrier considered herself witty. Marianne had signed, moreover, all that the other had asked.
The Dujarrier merely retained twenty thousand francs as her commission and handed only eighty thousand to Marianne. "But Vaudrey's acceptance to Gochard is for one hundred thousand!" "You are silly, my girl! What if I lose the balance? If your minister should not pay?" "What do you mean?" "Stranger things have happened, my little one."
Justine, her recently engaged femme de chambre, who, like the silverware, was provided by the Dujarrier, came to announce with the discreet, bantering little smile of servants, that Monsieur Dachet, the upholsterer, had called twice. "The upholsterer!" Marianne frowned slightly. "What did he say?" "Nothing, that he would return to-morrow."
"Then nothing is more simple. Madame Dujarrier will arrange it." "Is Madame Dujarrier a providence then?" "Almost," said Marianne coldly.
You have yourself," said Claire Dujarrier. "Then you have me, I have always liked you. I will lend you the ready cash to set yourself up, you can give me bills of exchange, little documents that your minister pest! you are going on well, you are, ministers! that His Excellency will endorse. Vanda will not expect anything after the first quarter.
I will write to Vanda that her house is rented, and well rented. Kiss me and skip! I hear Adolphe coming. He does not care to see new faces. And then, yours is too pretty!" she added, with a peculiar significance. She got the old servant to show Marianne out promptly, as if she felt fearful lest her husband should see the pretty creature. Claire Dujarrier was certainly jealous.
She began by reading the lines that he had so hastily written: I guarantee to Monsieur Adolphe Gochard a bill of exchange at three months, if he agrees to advance that amount to Mademoiselle Dujarrier who will hand it to Mademoiselle Marianne Kayser. "Well! the Dujarrier was right," she said; "a woman's scheming works easier than a sinapism."
Thanks to the Dujarrier, Marianne had paid the rent of the house, the servants and the pressing debts.
It was Madame Dujarrier who had introduced him and Marianne would have already availed herself of his courtesy, if she had believed herself able to repay it at the appointed date. "And where does this Monsieur Gochard live?" Vaudrey promptly asked. "Oh! it would not be necessary for you to go to see him," replied Marianne.
"On receipt of a bill of exchange from me, Madame Dujarrier would undertake to let me have a hundred thousand francs from hand to hand." "A hundred thousand francs! In three months," said Vaudrey to himself, "in a vast placer like Paris, one can find many veins of gold." He had, besides, his personal property and land in Dauphiny.
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