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Gobseck's peculiar genius had then devised an agency for discounting the planters' claims on the government. The business was carried on under the names of Werbrust and Gigonnet, with whom he shared the spoil without disbursements, for his knowledge was accepted instead of capital.
"And this is all?" exclaimed des Lupeaulx. "All," said Gobseck. "You agree?" asked Gigonnet. Des Lupeaulx nodded his head. "Well, then, sign this power of attorney. Within two days Baudoyer is to be nominated; within six your debts will be cleared off, and " "And what?" asked des Lupeaulx. "We guarantee " "Guarantee! what?" said the secretary, more and more astonished.
The porter's lodge was on the entresol, in a space which was lighted only from the staircase. All the lodgers, with the exception of Gigonnet, worked at trades. Workmen were continually coming and going. The stairs were caked with a layer of mud, hard or soft according to the state of the atmosphere, and were covered with filth.
Uncle Mitral rubbed his nose and grinned as he glanced at his niece Elisabeth, the woman whose hand had pulled the wires, who was talking with Gigonnet. Falleix, honest fellow, did not know what to make of the stupid blindness of Saillard and Baudoyer. "What a crew!" whispered Bixiou to du Bruel.
"It's a clever game," said Metivier. "We'll do it," said Gigonnet; "you agree, don't you, Gobseck? Falleix can give us security and put mortgages on the property in my name; we'll go and see des Lupeaulx when all is ready." "We're robbed," said Gobseck. "Ha, ha!" laughed Mitral, "I'd like to know the robber!" "Nobody can rob us but ourselves," answered Gigonnet.
The poor man's shirt was wet; his perspiration turned to ice as du Tillet looked fixedly at him, and he saw the silver-lined pupils of those eyes, streaked with threads of gold, which pierced to his very heart with a diabolical gleam. "My dear master, the Bank has refused to take your notes which the house of Claparon passed over to Gigonnet not guaranteed. Is that my fault?
"I have come to tell you that all your notes and debts have been brought up by Gobseck and Gigonnet, under the name of a certain Samanon." "Men whom I helped to make their millions!" "Listen," whispered the lawyer. Don't you think I have done right to come and tell you?" "Thank you," said des Lupeaulx, nodding to the lawyer with a shrewd look.
"'Oh! my son, exclaimed Gobseck, rising to his feet, and stretching out his arms to me, 'if he has good security, you have saved my life. It would be the death of me. Werbrust and Gigonnet imagined that they were going to play off a trick on me; and now, thanks to you, I shall have a good laugh at their expense to-night. "There was something frightful about the old man's ecstasy.
Reprobate! is that what he calls business? There is no honor among mayors; the government deceives us. Stop! I'll go and make him pay me; I will " "Hey! at such times everybody looks out for himself, my dear!" said Gigonnet, lifting his leg with the quaint little action of a cat fearing to cross a wet place, a habit to which he owed his nickname.
The Rue Grenetat is a street where all the houses, crowded with trades of every kind, have a repulsive aspect. The buildings are horrible. The vile uncleanliness of manufactories is their leading feature. Old Gigonnet lived on the third floor of a house whose window-sashes, with small and very dirty panes, swung by the middle, on pivots. The staircase opened directly upon the street.
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