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The two usurers took a mental inventory of des Lupeaulx's study while he read with amazement and stupefaction a deed of purchase which seemed wafted to him from the clouds by angels. "Don't you think you have a pair of intelligent business agents in Gobseck and me?" asked Gigonnet. "But tell me, to what do I owe such able co-operation?" said des Lupeaulx, suspicious and uneasy.
In January, he remarked, the renewal of subscriptions to the paper would be coming in, there would be plenty of money in hand, and they could then see what had best be done. Besides, couldn't Nathan write a play? As a matter of pride Raoul determined to pay off the notes at once. Du Tillet gave Raoul a letter to Gigonnet, who counted out the money on a note of Nathan's at twenty days' sight.
The names of the assignees selected through the influence of du Tillet were very significant to Pillerault. Monsieur Bidault, called Gigonnet, the principal creditor, was the one to take no active part; and Molineux, the mischievous old man who lost nothing by the failure, was to manage everything.
Du Tillet knew the enormous underground part played in the world by such men as Werbrust and Gigonnet, commercial money-lenders in the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin; by Palma, banker in the Faubourg Poissonniere, all of whom were closely connected with Gobseck.
"You will see," resumed Gigonnet, "that the sum total of your debts is added to the sum loaned by us for the purchase of the property; we have bought them up." "Here are the deeds," said Gobseck, taking from the pocket of his greenish overcoat a number of legal papers. "You have three years in which to pay off the whole sum," said Gigonnet.
"If he had set up his own Cephalic Oil instead of running up the price of all the land in Paris by pouncing upon it, he might have lost his hundred thousand francs with Roguin, but he wouldn't have failed. He will go on now under the name of Popinot." "Keep a watch on Popinot," said Gigonnet. Roguin, in the parlance of such worthy merchants, was now the "unfortunate Roguin."
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."
In short, silent and uncommunicative as he was, he was looked upon as a deep thinker, and perhaps, said the admiring circle, he would some day become deputy of the eighth arrondissement. As Gigonnet listened to such remarks as these, he pressed his already pinched lips closer together, and threw a glance at his great-niece, Elisabeth.
Old Saillard would say, innocently, "Isn't she clever, that Elisabeth of mine?" But Baudoyer, too great a fool not to be puffed up by the false reputation the quartier Saint-Antoine bestowed upon him, denied his wife's cleverness all the while that he was making use of it. Elisabeth had long felt sure that her uncle Bidault, otherwise called Gigonnet, was rich and handled vast sums of money.
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?"
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