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"Monsieur," said Gaudissart, who chanced to be turning his watch-key with a rotatory and periodical click which caught the attention of the lunatic and contributed no doubt to keep him quiet. Listen! Of all kinds of social wealth, is not time the most precious? To economize time is, consequently, to become wealthy.
"My friend," said Gaudissart, "you don't know the provincials; there's a surgical operation called by that name, and they are such stupids that they'll think your oil is meant to facilitate childbirth. To drag them back from that to hair is beyond even my powers of persuasion."
At once, if the lady is English, the dark, mysterious, portentous Gaudissart advances like a romantic character out of one of Byron's poems. If she is a city madam, the oldest is put forward.
At these words Gaudissart flew at the dyer to give him a slap on the face, but the listening crowd rushed between them, so that the illustrious traveller only contrived to knock off the wig of his enemy, which fell on the head of Mademoiselle Clara Vernier.
"But, my good man, how come you to be out in the street without a roof over your head or a penny in your pocket, when you are the sole heir? That does not necessarily follow, as the saying is." "They haf put me out at der door. I am a voreigner, I know nodings of die laws." "Poor man!" thought Gaudissart, foreseeing the probable end of the unequal contest.
"I have no doubt of it, Monsieur. The 'Globe, of which we were speaking " "Yes, I've gone over it," said Margaritis. "I was sure of it!" exclaimed Gaudissart. "Monsieur, you have a fine frontal development; a pate excuse the word which our gentlemen call 'horse-head. There's a horse element in the head of every great man.
So that is two thousand four hundred francs per annum." "Dat ees not all! I should like som monny." "Pin-money! Just so. Oh, these Germans! And calls himself an innocent, the old Robert Macaire!" thought Gaudissart. Aloud he said, "How much do you want? But this must be the last." "It ees to bay a zacred debt." "A debt!" said Gaudissart to himself. What a shark it is!
On returning from his trip through the southern departments, the illustrious Gaudissart occupied the coupe of a diligence, where he met a young man to whom, as they journeyed between Angouleme and Paris, he deigned to explain the enigmas of life, taking him, apparently, for an infant. As they passed Vouvray the young man exclaimed, "What a fine site!"
Mounted upon his horse, he trotted along the embankment thinking no more of his phrases than an actor thinks of his part which he has played for a hundred times. It was thus that the illustrious Gaudissart went his cheerful way, admiring the landscape, and little dreaming that in the happy valleys of Vouvray his commercial infallibility was about to perish.
The coach stopped before a pretty house, newly built in the Rue d'Artois, where Gaudissart and Jenny climbed to the fourth story. This was the abode of Mademoiselle Jenny Courand, commonly reported to be privately married to the illustrious Gaudissart, a rumor which that individual did not deny.
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