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Blondet is driving a hearse to his own suicide; Blondet, forsooth! who manufactures newspaper accounts of the last words of all the great men that die without saying anything!" "Come, get on," put in Finot. Well, now, do you not see at what a price Godefroid secured the greatest happiness of a young man's dreams?
"'But d'Aiglemont, who was here at breakfast with us, has a million in Nucingen's bank. "'Look here; I do not know whether there will be enough of these shares to cover it; and besides, I am not his friend, I cannot betray Nucingen's confidence. You must not speak to d'Aiglemont. If you say a word, you must answer to me for the consequences. "Godefroid stood stock still for ten minutes.
Between ourselves I'll tell you this: somebody will soon be down on him for that money, and he can't get a penny of credit now in the quarter just on that account." "Three thousand francs!" repeated Godefroid; "oh, you needn't be afraid I'll lend him that. If I had three thousand francs to dispose of I shouldn't be your lodger.
The criminals of whom you speak were men of remarkable vigor; could they have been within our hands in time they might have become distinguished men; but as soon as they committed a murder, it was no longer possible to interfere; they then belonged to human justice." "That must mean," said Godefroid, "that you are against the penalty of death?" Monsieur Nicolas rose hastily and left the room.
"Ah ha!" laughed Vanda, noticing his look, "do you want to know what those cords are for?" "Vanda!" said her father, hastily, "calm yourself, my daughter. See! here comes tea. That, monsieur," he continued, turning to Godefroid, "is rather a costly affair. My daughter cannot rise, and therefore it is difficult to change her sheets.
"Who are you, then?" asked the old man, dropping into a chair. "I myself," replied Godefroid, "am nothing; but I serve powerful persons to whom your distress is known, and who feel an interest in you. Ask me nothing more about them." "But what induces them to do this?" said the old man. "Religion." "Religion! is it possible?" "Yes, the catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion."
While the lad went back to his own rooms, returning immediately, Godefroid reflected that the poor child was guilty of no crime, and that he ought not to put despair into that young heart by speaking of his grandfather and of the punishment for his savage political actions that had overtaken his old age. He therefore took the little package with a good grace.
Godefroid came back, shy, scarcely formed, a good fellow with a confiding disposition, incapable of saying ill of any one who honored him with an admittance to his house, too staunch to be a diplomatist, altogether he was what we call a thoroughly good fellow." "To cut it short, a brat with eighteen thousand livres per annum to drop over the first investment that turns up," said Couture.
"You are the life of your friends," Godefroid said to her one day; "you are the tie that unites them, the house-mother, as it were, of some great work; and, as we are all mortal, I ask myself sometimes what your association would become without you." "That is what frightens the others; but Providence, to whom we owe our new book-keeper," she said, smiling, "will provide.
Did he intend to stay?" etc., at the same time advising him to persevere in his plan. "I need only one thing to make me contented," said Godefroid. "What is that?" asked the banker. "An occupation." "An occupation!" remarked the Abbe de Veze. "Then you have changed your mind? I thought you came to our cloister for rest."
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