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"You hafe a genius for corruption," said the Baron, who had listened to Asie in admiring silence, "just as I hafe de knack of de banking." "Then it is settled, my pigeon?" said Asie. "Done for fifty tousant franc insteat of ein hundert tousant! An' I shall give you fife hundert tousant de day after my triumph." "Very good, I will set to work," said Asie.
You hafe got your moneys; do not slobber no more on dis flower of lofe!" cried the banker, indemnifying himself by this violent abuse for all the insolence he had submitted to. "You old rip! I will pay you out for that speech!" said Asie, threatening the banker with a gesture worthy of the Halle, at which the Baron merely shrugged his shoulders.
Dunder! vat you vant an angel? You don't hafe to take dot bart mit me, or Meester Lane either, don 't it, hey?" Miss Norvell turned contemptuously away from him, her face white with determination. "If you really want to know, there is only one man in all your troupe I would consent to play it with," she declared calmly. "Und dot is?"
"Dere is someting fery strange in all dat," thought Nucingen, excited by his pillules. "Vat shall dey say at home?" He got up and looked out of the window. "My carriage still is dere. It shall soon be daylight." He walked up and down the room. "Vat Montame de Nucingen should laugh at me ven she should know how I hafe spent dis night!"
It appeared that Duncan had told the same gambling story to Mr. Gross, who seemed to be dreadfully shocked at the affair. "Py gracious," said he excitedly, "I hafe knowed dot boy ven I sold cloding in Des Moines, more as fife years ago, and so help me Moses I did nefer belief he vud do such a ting loike dot."
One of the subjects for confirmation at a bishop's recent visitation, on being asked by the clergyman to whom she applied for her certificate of qualifications, what her godfathers and godmothers promised for her, said, with much naiveté, "I've a yeard that they promised to give me hafe a dozen zilver spoons, but I've never had 'em though."
Esther kissed the Baron so sweetly that he turned pale without any pills. "Oh!" cried she, "do not suppose that I am sweet to you only for your thirty thousand francs! It is because now I love you, my good, fat Frederic." "Ach, mein Gott! Vy hafe you kept me vaiting? I might hafe been so happy all dese tree monts."
"And you may come, monsieur," she added respectfully. "You will find madame as soft already as a cat's back, and perhaps inclined to make herself pleasant." "Go, go, my goot voman," said the banker, rubbing his hands. And after seeing the horrible mulatto out of the house, he said to himself: "How vise it is to hafe much money."
"But one word from me to-morrow to monsieur, and you, madame, would find yourself in the streets," retorted Europe insolently. "Dat dam' maid!" said the Baron to Georges, who naturally asked his master if all had gone well, "hafe do me out of dirty tousant franc but it vas my own fault, my own great fault " "And so monsieur's dress was all wasted.
Contenson handed him three packets covered with blue paper, which the Baron took, looking at the man, and adding in an undertone: "It should hafe been a better day's vork for you ven you had gife me notice." "Why, how should I know you were here, Monsieur le Baron?" replied the spy, heedless whether Louchard heard him. "You lost my services by withdrawing your confidence.
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