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Updated: June 29, 2025
These girls laugh laws to scorn, and adore a certain kind of generosity; they sell themselves, as Esther had done, for a secret ideal, which is their religion. After saving a few jewels from the wreck with great difficulty, Madame du Val-Noble was crushed under the burden of the horrible report: "She ruined Falleix."
These are days when public offices should be given only to faithful men, whose religious principles are not to be shaken." "Dear me!" said Falleix, "do men of merit need protectors and influence to get places in the government service? I am glad I am an iron-master; my customers know where to find a good article "
In 1804 Madame Saillard obtained a government office for the sale of stamped papers, a circumstance which brought a servant into the household for the first time. At the time of which we write, the house, which was worth a hundred thousand francs, brought in a rental of eight thousand. Falleix paid seven per cent for the sixty thousand invested in the foundry, besides an equal division of profits.
He squeezed du Tillet's hand with an expression such as a woman's face wears when she is playing her neighbor a trick. "Martin Falleix came up. 'Well, have you heard the news? he asked. 'Nucingen has stopped payment. "'Pooh, said Werbrust, 'pray don't noise it about; give those that hold his paper a chance. "'What is the cause of the smash; do you know? put in Claparon.
"Same as ever," replied Gigonnet, rubbing his hands, "victory with gold." "True," said Gobseck. Mitral took a cabriolet and went straight to the Saillards and Baudoyers, who were still playing boston at a late hour. No one was present but the Abbe Gaudron. Falleix, half-dead with the fatigue of his journey, had gone to bed.
The Kellers, acting on Palma's advice, let go Nucingen's paper at ten per cent of loss; they set the example on 'Change, for they were supposed to know very well what they were about. Taillefer followed up with three hundred thousand francs at a discount of twenty per cent, and Martin Falleix with two hundred thousand at fifteen. Gigonnet saw what was going on.
"That can be managed," said his friend. "If you go there this morning, you will find one of Falleix's partners there with the tradespeople, who want to establish a first claim; but la Val-Noble has their accounts made out to Falleix." The Baron sent off one of his clerks forthwith to his lawyer.
"It's a clever game," said Metivier. "We'll do it," said Gigonnet; "you agree, don't you, Gobseck? Falleix can give us security and put mortgages on the property in my name; we'll go and see des Lupeaulx when all is ready." "We're robbed," said Gobseck. "Ha, ha!" laughed Mitral, "I'd like to know the robber!" "Nobody can rob us but ourselves," answered Gigonnet.
"It is just because he is an Auvergnat that I take only eighteen per cent," said Gigonnet, when she spoke of him. Elisabeth determined to husband him for her daughter and train him herself, having, as she calculated, seven years to do it in. Martin Falleix felt and showed the deepest respect for Madame Baudoyer, whose superior qualities he was able to recognize.
Jacques Falleix had spoken to him about this house, which was worth sixty thousand francs at most, and he wished to be put in possession of it at once, so as to avail himself of the privileges of the householder. The cashier, honest man, came to inquire whether his master had lost anything by Falleix's bankruptcy. "On de contrar' mein goot Volfgang, I stant to vin ein hundert tousant francs."
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