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"'Good day, Daddy Gobseck, I began. "He turned his face towards me with a slight contraction of his bushy, black eyebrows; this characteristic shade of expression in him meant as much as the most jubilant smile on a Southern face.
"He is one of Gigonnet's lambs, a spy for Palma, Werbrust, Gobseck, and the rest of those crocodiles who swim in the Paris money-market. Every man with a fortune to make, or unmake, is sure to come across one of them sooner or later." "If you cannot discount your bills at fifty per cent," remarked Lousteau, "you must exchange them for hard cash." "How?"
"Gobseck dipped his bread into the bowl of coffee, and ate with perfect indifference; but at the words 'come to terms, he looked at me as who should say, 'A fine fellow that! he has learned something from my lessons! And I, for my part, riposted with a glance, which he understood uncommonly well. The business was dubious and shady; there was pressing need of coming to terms.
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.
He had ended, as most of us end, with a hobby that bordered on a craze. He was as miserly as his friend, the late lamented Gobseck; but he had been caught by the snare of the eyes, by the beauty of the pictures in which he dealt. As his taste grew more and more fastidious, it became one of the passions which princes alone can indulge when they are wealthy and art-lovers.
"If you want me to help you, consider that I recollect the past." "So do we," answered Gigonnet. "My debts must be paid," said des Lupeaulx, disdainfully, so as not to seem worsted at the outset. "True," said Gobseck. "Let us come to the point, my son," said Gigonnet. "Don't stiffen your chin in your cravat; with us all that is useless. Take these deeds and read them."
Du Tillet will come to a bad end at the Bourse. If he is, as they say, the tool of old Gobseck, he won't be allowed to go far. Gobseck sits in a corner of his web like an old spider who has travelled round the world. Sooner or later, ztit! the usurer will toss him off as I do this glass of wine. So much the better! Du Tillet has played me a trick oh! a damnable trick."
"'Are the diamonds your personal property, madame? I asked in a clear voice. "'Yes, monsieur, she said, looking at me with proud eyes. "'Make out the deed of purchase with power of redemption, chatterbox, said Gobseck to me, resigning his chair at the bureau in my favor. "'Madame is without doubt a married woman? I tried again. "She nodded abruptly.
"To save Maxime's life," she said, "to save all my own happiness, I went to the money-lender you know of, a man of iron forged in hell-fire; nothing can melt him; I took all the family diamonds that M. de Restaud is so proud of his and mine too and sold them to that M. Gobseck. Sold them! Do you understand? I saved Maxime, but I am lost. Restaud found it all out." "How? Who told him?
'But his avarice does not authorize me to paint him to the life for a stranger's benefit. "'Speak out, sir. Your frankness cannot injure Gobseck or yourself. I do not expect to find an angel in a pawnbroker. "'Daddy Gobseck, I began, 'is intimately convinced of the truth of the principle which he takes for a rule of life.
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