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Considering myself, then, no longer your avoue, do not think I take too great a liberty in volunteering my counsel as a friend, or a friend at least to M. Hebert, if you do not vouchsafe my right so to address yourself." M. Gandrin spoke with a certain dignity of voice and manner which touched and softened his listener. "You make me your debtor far more than I pretend to repay," replied Alain.
Having gone through the ceremony of presentation to Madame Gandrin, a handsome woman dressed to perfection, and conversing with the secretary to an embassy, the young noble ensconced himself in an obscure and quiet corner, observing all and imagining that he escaped observation.
Let your lawyer get them, and go to sleep with both ears on your pillow." "Ah! you think Collot can pay if he will?" "Ah! foi! did not M. Gandrin tell you that M. Collot was safe to buy your wood at more money than any one else would give?" "Certainly," said Alain, comforted. "Gandrin left that impression on my mind. I will set him on the man.
The terms you propose are most liberal, and I close with them at once." "Bon," said Louvier, shaking vehemently the hand offered to him; "I will take the paper to Gandrin, and instruct him accordingly. And now, may I attach a condition to the agreement which is not put down on paper? It may have surprised you perhaps that I should propose a gratuity of 25,000 francs on completion of the contract.
The next day at noon M. Louvier was closeted in his study with M. Gandrin. "Yes," cried Louvier, "I have behaved very handsomely to the beau Marquis. No one can say to the contrary." "True," answered Gandrin. "Besides the easy terms for the transfer of the mortgages, that free bonus of one thousand louis is a generous and noble act of munificence."
The terms you propose are most liberal, and I close with them at once." "Bon," said Louvier, shaking vehemently the hand offered to him; "I will take the paper to Gandrin, and instruct him accordingly. And now, may I attach a condition to the agreement which is not put down on paper? It may have surprised you perhaps that I should propose a gratuity of 25,000 francs on completion of the contract.
If a contractor for the yearly sale of the woods was bankrupt and did not pay, how could I get my interest? Answer me that, Gandrin." "Certainly you must run the risk of that chance." "Of course the chance occurs, and then I foreclose, seize, Rochebriant and its seigneuries are mine."
AT about the same hour on the same day in which the Englishman held the conference with the Parisian detective just related, the Marquis de Rochebriant found himself by appointment in the cabinet d'affaires of his avoue M. Gandrin that gentleman had hitherto not found time to give him a definite opinion as to the case submitted to his judgment.
"He is neither petit nor muscadin, Monsieur Louvier," replied Gandrin, peevishly; "and he will task your powers to get him thoroughly into your net. But I have persuaded him to meet you here. What day can you dine with me? I had better ask no one else." "To-morrow I dine with my friend O , to meet the chiefs of the Opposition," said M. Louvier, with a sort of careless rollicking pomposity.
Louvier bowed out M. Gandrin, and then rubbed his hands complacently. He was in high spirits. "Aha, my dear Marquis, thou art in my trap now. Would it were thy father instead," he muttered chucklingly, and then took his stand on the hearth, with his back to the fireless grate.
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