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"How, nothing?" the man then said, as he took a seat, holding his hat in his hand and placing his fist on his left hip, in the attitude of a fencing-master posing for an elegant effect. "To treat a gentleman as you have just treated me; you call that nothing?" He turned to Rosas and said, as he saluted him with the airs of a sub. off. on the stage: "Adolphe Gochard!
"The money is not all. I demand respect!" replied Gochard, as he wiped his cheek. He placed his card on the mantelpiece. "Adolphe Gochard! there is my address. Besides, Madame knows it. With the pistol, the sabre, or the espadon, as you please! I am afraid of no one." "You will be paid, you have been told, you shall be paid!" cried Marianne, absolutely crazy and ready to tear him with her nails.
She began by reading the lines that he had so hastily written: I guarantee to Monsieur Adolphe Gochard a bill of exchange at three months, if he agrees to advance that amount to Mademoiselle Dujarrier who will hand it to Mademoiselle Marianne Kayser. "Well! the Dujarrier was right," she said; "a woman's scheming works easier than a sinapism."
You are not made of the stuff of a true-born lover. What you have just told me is the remark of a loon!" "Ah! if I had only known you!" "Or anything! But I am better than you, you see. I was better advised than you. The bill of exchange that you owe to the Dujarrier or to Gochard, whichever you like it inconveniences you, I know!" "Yes," said Vaudrey, "but "
You do not know me, Monsieur le duc?" "No," said José. "What do you want? "Ah! pardon me," said Gochard, as he interrupted Marianne. "You rang, you wished to have the presence of the servants. You threatened to have me pitched out of the door by the shoulders. Since you have called, they shall hear me." The servants, hurrying to the spot, now appeared in the indistinct shadow of the doorway.
"That would surprise me!" said Gochard. "But, saperlipopette, you are not very polite in your set!" "Not very polite with boors! You are in my house!" "Oh! you can't teach me where I am!" said the Dujarrier's lover, with a wink of his eye.
Rosas, frightened himself, and terrified at the prospect of some unknown baseness and doubtful transaction, felt Marianne's hand tremble in his, and by degrees, as Gochard proceeded, the duke realized that Marianne wished to get away and it was he who now retained her; holding the young woman's wrist tightly within his fingers, he forcibly prevented her from escaping, insisting that she should listen and hear everything.
And he has taken the matter up in a dramatic fashion? "Folly!" "It is a serious matter, all the same!" said the uncle, after debating with himself as to where he should dine. "He will break her heart as he said, immured yonder within his four walls! Ah! it was hardly worth while to handle her affairs so cleverly for a Gochard to come on the scenes and spoil everything, the rascal!
Vaudrey felt his head turn under the humiliation of his double defeat, the loss of parliamentary confidence, and Marianne's insulting laugh, and urged by the anxiety he felt about the obligation to be met in eight days, in his bewilderment he thought of writing to Gochard of Rue des Marais, to ask for time. This Gochard must be a half-usurer.
Just before, on seeing the banker's card, the idea of the money of which the fat man was one of the incarnations, had suddenly dawned upon him as a hope. Who knows? By Molina's aid, he might, perhaps, free himself from anxiety about the Gochard bill of exchange!
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