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First of all, we must make sure of Baudoyer's appointment, and des Lupeaulx will get it for us on these terms; after that is settled we will hand him back to you. Falleix is now canvassing the electoral vote. Don't you perceive that you have Lupeaulx completely in your power until after the election? for Falleix's friends are a large majority. Now do you see what I mean, papa Gigonnet?"
Uncle Mitral rubbed his nose and grinned as he glanced at his niece Elisabeth, the woman whose hand had pulled the wires, who was talking with Gigonnet. Falleix, honest fellow, did not know what to make of the stupid blindness of Saillard and Baudoyer. "What a crew!" whispered Bixiou to du Bruel.
"Well, my dear child," said Esther to Madame du Val-Noble, "come and see me. Nucingen owes it to himself not to leave his stockbroker's mistress without a sou " "All the more so because it is said that he ruined Falleix," remarked Theodore Gaillard, "and that we have every right to squeeze him." "He dines with me to-morrow," said Esther; "come and meet him."
All her best affections found their vocation in her love for her daughter, to whom she spared the pains and privations she had borne in her own childhood; she believed that in this affection she had her full share in the world of feeling. Solely for her daughter's sake she had persuaded her father to take the important step of going into partnership with Falleix.
"Oh! so it is she who has fallen heir to my house in the Rue Saint-Georges," observed Madame du Val-Noble with some bitterness; for she, as she phrased it, was on the loose. "Most likely," said the Colonel. "Du Tillet told me that the Baron had spent three times as much there as your poor Falleix." "Let us go round to her box," said Tullia.
After thirty-three years of married life, and twenty-nine years of toil in a government office, the property of "the Saillards" their circle of acquaintance called them so consisted of sixty thousand francs entrusted to Falleix, the house in the place Royale, bought for forty thousand in 1804, and thirty-six thousand francs given in dowry to their daughter Elisabeth.
Ver' soon my difine Esther shall life in a little palace.... I hafe been dere mit Falleix it is close to here. It shall fit me like a glofe." Falleix's failure required the Baron's presence at the Bourse; but he could not bear to leave his house in the Rue Saint-Lazare without going to the Rue Taitbout; he was already miserable at having been away from Esther for so many hours.
The "good fellow" is the product of a certain facility of nature which proves nothing. A man is a good fellow, as a cat is silky, as a slipper is made to slip on to the foot. And so, in the meaning given to the word by a kept woman, Falleix ought to have warned his mistress of his approaching bankruptcy and have given her enough to live upon.
Du Tillet has it in the highest degree." "Try to get du Tillet, and if he and Nucingen between them could only catch him in some of their plots, I should at least be revenged. They would bring him to beggary! "Oh! my dear, to have fallen into the hands of a hypocritical Protestant after that poor Falleix, who was so amusing, so good-natured, so full of chaff! How we used to laugh!
Once in the street, the two usurers looked at each other under a street lamp and laughed. "He will owe us nine thousand francs interest a year," said Gigonnet; "that property doesn't bring him in five." "He is under our thumb for a long time," said Gobseck. "He'll build; he'll commit extravagancies," continued Gigonnet; "Falleix will get his land."
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