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In spite of his Roman virtue he must have been touched, for his red nose lost somewhat of its color. "Well, suppose it is misfortune, won't you help Saillard's daughter? a girl who has knitted your stockings for the last thirty years!" cried Mitral. "If there's good security I don't say I won't," replied Gigonnet. "Falleix is in with them.
Cesar had become "that wretched Birotteau." The one seemed to them excused by his great passion; the other they considered all the more guilty for his harmless pretensions. Gigonnet, after leaving the Bourse, went round by the Rue Perrin-Gasselin on his way home, in search of Madame Madou, the vendor of dried fruits. "Well, old woman," he said, with his coarse good-humor, "how goes the business?"
Uncle Gigonnet-Bidault, who had dined at the house, had a restless, fidgety look in his eye which frightened Bixiou. "There's a queer one," said the latter to du Bruel, calling his attention to Gigonnet, "who would do in a vaudeville. I wonder if he could be bought. Such an old scarecrow is just the thing for a sign over the Two Baboons. And what a coat!
"Always a child," said Gobseck to Gigonnet, "you are too quick on the trigger." "Come, Gobseck and Gigonnet, listen to me; you want to keep well with des Lupeaulx, don't you? You've not forgotten how you plucked him in that affair about the king's debts, and you are afraid he'll ask you to return some of his feathers," said Mitral.
It was past eleven o'clock. Des Lupeaulx trembled when he saw those sinister faces, emitting a simultaneous look as direct as a pistol shot and as brilliant as the flash itself. "What is it, my masters?" he said. The two extortioners continued cold and motionless. Gigonnet silently pointed to the documents in his hand, and then at the servant.
"It is just because he is an Auvergnat that I take only eighteen per cent," said Gigonnet, when she spoke of him. Elisabeth determined to husband him for her daughter and train him herself, having, as she calculated, seven years to do it in. Martin Falleix felt and showed the deepest respect for Madame Baudoyer, whose superior qualities he was able to recognize.
Du Tillet, who did not want Nathan as a rival before the electoral college, where he meant to appear himself, instigated Gigonnet to sue Nathan without compromise. A man locked up for debt could not present himself as a candidate for election.
"Your election to the Chamber," said Gigonnet, rising on his heels. "We have secured a majority of fifty-two farmers' and mechanics' votes, which will be thrown precisely as those who lend you this money dictate." Des Lupeaulx wrung Gigonnet's hand. "It is only such as we who never misunderstand each other," he said; "this is what I call doing business. I'll make you a return gift."
Gigonnet and Gobseck, who were talking together in a corner, looked at the man of commercial honor very much as a naturalist must have looked at the first electric-eel that was ever brought to him, a fish armed with the power of a Leyden jar, which is the greatest curiosity of the animal kingdom.
Gobseck, Werdet, and Gigonnet swallowed the profits, but des Lupeaulx had agreed that they should have them; he was not playing for a stake; he challenged the bank, as it were, knowing very well that the king was not a man to forget this debt of honor. Des Lupeaulx was not mistaken; he was appointed Master of petitions, Knight of the order of Saint Louis, and officer of the Legion of honor.
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