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Updated: June 8, 2025
We have in Grandet a self-made man, who has amassed riches by trade and speculation, and lives with his wife and daughter in a gloomy old house, with only one servant as miserly as the master.
In the morning Monsieur Grandet, following his usual custom on the days that commemorated the birth and the fete of Eugenie, went to her bedside and solemnly presented her with his paternal gift, which for the last thirteen years had consisted regularly of a curious gold-piece. Madame Grandet gave her daughter a winter dress or a summer dress, as the case might be.
Daily some little circumstance reminded them of the parting that was at hand. Three days after the departure of des Grassins, Grandet took his nephew to the Civil courts, with the solemnity which country people attach to all legal acts, that he might sign a deed surrendering his rights in his father's estate. Terrible renunciation! species of domestic apostasy!
That morning, in the absence of Grandet and of Nanon, the precious case which contained the two portraits was solemnly installed in the only drawer of the old cabinet which could be locked, where the now empty velvet purse was lying. This deposit was not made without a goodly number of tears and kisses.
Yes, you are my daughter, I see that " Eugenie trembled in every limb. "This came from Charles, of course, didn't it?" continued the old man. "Yes, father; it is not mine. It is a sacred trust." "Ta, ta, ta, ta! He took your fortune, and now you can get it back." "Father!" Grandet took his knife to pry out some of the gold; to do this, he placed the dressing-case on a chair.
It isn't a dandy's room; but you will excuse a poor wine-grower who never has a penny to spare. Taxes swallow up everything." "We do not wish to intrude, Grandet," said the banker; "you may want to talk to your nephew, and therefore we will bid you good-night." At these words the assembly rose, and each made a parting bow in keeping with his or her own character.
"Suppose we all go?" said Monsieur des Grassins; "that knock strikes me as evil-intentioned." Hardly was Monsieur des Grassins allowed to see the figure of a young man, accompanied by a porter from the coach-office carrying two large trunks and dragging a carpet-bag after him, than Monsieur Grandet turned roughly on his wife and said,
Suppose they are sent off empty-handed for once, faith! they'll come back." "Yes, but let us mind what we are about," said Grandet in a tone which made the president tremble. "Is he driving some bargain?" thought Cruchot. At this moment the knocker announced the des Grassins family, and their arrival interrupted a conversation which had begun between Madame Grandet and the abbe.
The old marquis had told him plainly that he should not marry his daughter until all the creditors of Guillaume Grandet had been paid in full. The president gave Charles the following letter:
A scene now took place in which Pere Grandet brought to bear, more than at any other moment of his life, the shrewd dexterity he had acquired in his intercourse with men, and which had won him from those whose flesh he sometimes bit too sharply the nickname of "the old dog."
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