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Gobseck then brought about a settlement in the concordat by which sixty-five per cent was remitted to the bankrupt. Thus the creditors were swindled in the interests of Gobseck. But the bankrupt had signed the illicit notes with the name of his insolvent firm, and he was therefore able to bring them under the reduction of sixty-five per cent.
"'I had the honor of telling you yesterday, said he, 'that I had fallen out with Daddy Gobseck most inopportunely; and as there is scarcely another man in Paris who can come down on the nail with a hundred thousand francs, at the end of the month, I begged of you to make my peace with him. But let us say no more about it
But who is to have the diamonds? Are you going to take them, lad? There is snuff too sell it at Hamburg, tobaccos are worth half as much again at Hamburg. All sorts of things I have in fact, and now I must go and leave them all. Come, Papa Gobseck, no weakness, be yourself!
"Do you think you could discount his signature for a large amount?" "Bring me his acceptances for fifty thousand francs, and I will get them discounted for you at a reasonable rate by old Gobseck, who is very easy to deal with when he has funds to invest; and he has some now."
The dying man reached his bed and lay down again, and a few hours later sank into unconsciousness. The priests came and administered the sacraments. "At midnight he died; the scene that morning had exhausted his remaining strength, and on the stroke of midnight I arrived with Daddy Gobseck.
"'M. le Comte, said I, 'you are right, and M. Gobseck is by no means in the wrong. You could not prosecute the purchaser without bringing your wife into court, and the whole of the odium would not fall on her.
Do you really imagine that I allow a daughter of mine to read the newspapers? Go on," she added after a pause. "Three months after everything was signed and sealed between the Count and Gobseck " "You can call him the Comte de Restaud, now that Camille is not here," said the Vicomtesse. "So be it!
This was how I came to see Gobseck in this light, monsieur. I know nothing of his past life. He may have been a pirate, may, for anything I know, have been all over the world, trafficking in diamonds, or men, or women, or State secrets; but this I affirm of him never has human soul been more thoroughly tempered and tried.
If it should fall into the Countess' hands, she might turn it to her own account, and that would be the beginning of a series of interminable lawsuits between her and Gobseck. I knew the usurer well enough to feel convinced that he would never give up the property to her; there was room for plenty of legal quibbling over a series of transfers, and I alone knew all the ins and outs of the matter.
Our firm executed the magnificent monument erected to the fair Esther Gobseck and Lucien de Rubempre, one of the finest ornaments of Pere-Lachaise. We only employ the best workmen, and I must warn you, sir, against small contractors who turn out nothing but trash," he added, seeing that another person in a black suit was coming up to say a word for another firm of marble-workers.
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