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Mother Madou, who would have floored a recalcitrant or too-familiar wagoner and gone fearlessly to the assault of the Tuileries on the 10th of October, who jeered her best customers and was capable of speaking up to the king in the name of her associate market-women, Angelique Madou received Gigonnet with abject respect. Without strength in his presence, she shuddered under his rasping glance.
"My dear Monsieur Birotteau, I take too great an interest in you," said the stout draper, entering the room, "we have known each other too long, for we were both elected judges at the same time, not to tell you that a man named Bidault, called Gigonnet, a usurer, has notes of yours turned over to his order, and marked 'not guaranteed, by the house of Claparon.
Raoul related his morning to Florine and Blondet. He gave them an inimitable sketch of Gigonnet, his fireplace without fire, his shabby wall-paper, his stairway, his asthmatic bell, his aged straw mattress, his den without warmth, like his eye.
The lower classes will long tremble at sight of the executioner, and Gigonnet was the executioner of petty commerce. In the markets no power on earth is so respected as that of the man who controls the flow of money; all other human institutions are as nothing beside him.
"A fellow who was a gentleman of the Bedchamber," went on Mitral, "a former 'chouan, what's his name? La Billardiere is dead." "True," said Gobseck. "And our nephew is giving monstrances to the church," snarled Gigonnet. "He is not such a fool as to give them, he sells them, old man," said Mitral, proudly. "He wants La Billardiere's place, and in order to get it, we must seize " "Seize!
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.
"There are some very big wigs in the matter who mean to get themselves out of the scrape." "Yes, and I'll pull my nuts out of the fire, too! Marie-Jeanne, bring my clogs and my rabbit-skin cloak; and quick, too, or I'll warm you up with a box on the ear." "There'll be warm work down there!" thought Gigonnet, rubbing his hands as he walked away.
Gigonnet and Mitral gave a glance at the three clerks so penetrating, so glittering with gleams of gold, that the two scoffers were sobered at once. "Hein?" said Bixiou, when they were safely under the arcades in the place Royale; "did you examine those uncles? two copies of Shylock. I'll bet their money is lent in the market at a hundred per cent per week.
His business was that of discounting commercial paper in the quartier Saint-Martin, where he was known by the nickname of "Gigonnet," from the nervous convulsive movement with which he lifted his legs in walking, like a cat. Monsieur Bidault began this business in the year II. in partnership with a dutchman named Werbrust, a friend of Gobseck.
Warnier I., 2 francs. Warnier II., 2 francs. Gigonnet, 4 francs. Baron Humann, 100 francs. The baron! the former prefect! Humann writing his name down here with Bel-Enfant and Gigonnet. Humann inscribing above his signature I vill supscribe von hundertfranc! If one were to see it in a newspaper, one would not believe it! If only a reporter were here now!
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