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"Come into my study," said des Lupeaulx, dismissing his valet by a sign. "You understand French very well," remarked Gigonnet, approvingly. "Have you come here to torment a man who enabled each of you to make a couple of hundred thousand francs?" "And who will help us to make more, I hope," said Gigonnet. "Some new affair?" asked des Lupeaulx.
I have the diamonds! he cried again and again, 'the beautiful diamonds! such diamonds! and tolerably cheaply. Aha! aha! Werbrust and Gigonnet, you thought you had old Papa Gobseck! Ego sum papa! I am master of the lot of you! Paid! paid, principal and interest! How silly they will look to-night when I shall come out with this story between two games of dominoes!
But if it is all the same to you," she added, following Birotteau through the yard, "I would like your note at forty days, because I have let you have them too cheap, and I don't want to lose the discount. Pere Gigonnet may have a tender heart, but he sucks the soul out of us as a spider sucks a fly." "Well, then, fifty days.
"Shall we tell him the whole thing?" asked Gobseck, whispering to Gigonnet. "Mitral is one of us; he wouldn't play a shabby trick on his former customers," replied Gigonnet. "You see, Mitral," he went on, speaking to the ex-sheriff in a low voice, "we three have just bought up all those debts, the payment of which depends on the decision of the liquidation committee."
When they reached the Cafe Themis he told his niece that he alone could manage Gigonnet in the matter they both had in view, and he made her wait in the hackney-coach and bide her time to come forward at the right moment.
He shuddered in spite of himself. "'Things are looking bad. There is a crisis on hand. Nucingen is compounding with his creditors. But this does not interest you, Daddy Matifat; you are out of business. "'Oh, well, you are mistaken, Gigonnet; I am in for three hundred thousand francs. I meant to speculate in Spanish bonds. "'Then you have saved your money.
"So much the worse for the other guest," he thought, meaning to make Claparon drunk, and to find out who were his real associates in an affair which began to look suspicious to him. "All right! Victoire!" called the banker. This call brought a regular Leonarde, tricked out like a fish-woman. "Tell the clerks that I can't see any one, not even Nucingen, Keller, Gigonnet, and all the rest of them."
This relic, picked up by Gigonnet after the pillage of Versailles, where the populace broke nearly everything, came from the queen's boudoir; but these rare vases were flanked by two candelabra of abject shape made of wrought-iron, and the barbarous contrast recalled the circumstances under which the vases had been acquired.
"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.
"Right," said Gobseck. "What is it?" asked Gigonnet. "The cross of the Legion of honor for your imbecile of a nephew." "Good," said Gigonnet, "I see you know him well." The pair took leave of des Lupeaulx, who conducted them to the staircase. "They must be secret envoys from foreign powers," whispered the footmen to each other.
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