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Outside in the street I separated from him, but he came after me, flung me one of those searching glances with which he probed men's minds, and said in the husky flute-tones, pitched in a shriller key: "'Do you take it upon yourself to judge me?" "From that time forward we saw little of each other. Gobseck let the Count's mansion on lease; he spent the summers on the country estates.
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.
Pillerault wished to learn and study the state of public opinion. He found in one of the most animated groups du Tillet, Gobenheim-Keller, Nucingen, old Guillaume, and his son-in-law Joseph Lebas, Claparon, Gigonnet, Mongenod, Camusot, Gobseck, Adolphe Keller, Palma, Chiffreville, Matifat, Grindot, and Lourdois. "What caution one needs to have!" said Gobenheim to du Tillet.
You would be compelled at once to produce the diamonds deposited with you, according to the weight, value, and cutting therein described. "Gobseck cut me short with a nod, and turned towards the guilty couple. "'He is right! he said. 'That puts the whole thing in a different light. Eighty thousand francs down, and you leave the diamonds with me, he added, in the husky, flute-like voice.
Shutting himself into his workroom and seated before a little table covered with green cloth, under the light of a four-branched candlestick, dressed in his monkish frock, a white robe in which he felt at ease, with the cord tied slackly around his waist and his shirt unbuttoned at the collar, he turned out, in a dizzy orgy of production, The Physiology of Marriage, the short stories constituting the Scenes of Private Life, At the Sign of the Cat-and-Racket, The Ball at Sceaux, The Vendetta, A Double Family, Peace in the Household, Gobseck and Sarrasine, besides studies, criticisms and essays for newspapers and magazines.
'In the way of property, possession is as good as a title. "'But objected the young man. "'You can take it or leave it, continued Gobseck, returning the jewel-case to the lady as he spoke. "'I have too many risks to run. "'It would be better to throw yourself at your husband's feet, I bent to whisper in her ear. "The usurer doubtless knew what I was saying from the movement of my lips.
"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.
In The Woman of Thirty Years Old, Madame d'Aiglemont has two children in the early chapters; subsequently, one is drowned, and, instead of one remaining, we learn there are three a new reading of Wordsworth's We are seven. Again, in the Lost Illusions, Esther Gobseck has blond hair in one description of her, and black in another. We are reduced to supposing she had dyed it.
"M. de Trailles made his bow to Gobseck, took a seat, and listened to us with a courtier-like attitude; its charming humility would have touched your heart to see, but my Gobseck sits in his chair by the fireside without moving a muscle, or changing a feature.
"Hey, hey! it is papa Mitral!" cried one of them, named Chaboisseau, a little old man who discounted for a publisher. "Bless me, so it is!" said another, a broker named Metivier, "ha, that's an old monkey well up in his tricks." "And you," retorted Mitral, "you are an old crow who knows all about carcasses." "True," said the stern Gobseck. "What are you here for?
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