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Updated: May 17, 2025
You understand that, Louvier?" "Yes, yes; so like you. Go on." "Now, then, came the thunderbolt! Ah! in those sunny days you used to envy me for being so spoilt by women.
"As serious as the French gayety will permit one to be." "Alas, Monsieur le Vicomte! can you flatter yourself that you will regain the society you have quitted, and the name you have " Louvier stopped short; something in the Vicomte's eye daunted him. "The name I have laid aside for convenience of travel. Princes travel incognito, and so may a simple gentilhomme.
A certain Chevalier de Finisterre, to whom Louvier had introduced the Marquis as a useful fellow who knew Paris, and would save him from being cheated, had secured this bijou of an apartment for Alain, and concluded the bargain for the bagatelle of L500.
The burly man entered the room with a face much flushed, and with more than his usual mixture of jovial brusquerie and opulent swagger. "Startled to see me, I dare say," began Louvier, as soon as the door was closed.
Here, certainly, no competitors in the mere business way would vie with Louvier; the mortgage at three and a half per cent. covers more than the estate is apparently worth.
I have myself, after careful inspection of the Rochebriant property, volunteered to its owner to advance the money to pay off your hypotheque; and what would be said on the Bourse if Lucien Duplessis failed in an obligation?" "I think I can guess what will one day be said of Lucien Duplessis if he make an irrevocable enemy of Paul Louvier.
Duplessis made no pretensions to vie with the magnificent existence of Louvier. His house, though agreeably situated and flatteringly styled the Hotel Duplessis, was of moderate size, very unostentatiously furnished; nor was it accustomed to receive the brilliant motley crowds which assembled in the salons of the elder financier.
CONFORMABLY with his engagement to meet M. Louvier, Alain found himself on the day and at the hour named in M. Gandrin's salon. On this occasion Madame Gandrin did not appear. Her husband was accustomed to give diners d'hommes. The great man had not yet arrived.
M. Louvier had been for some four years a childless widower, but his receptions were not the less numerously attended, nor his establishment less magnificently monde for the absence of a presiding lady: very much the contrary; it was noticeable how much he had increased his status and prestige as a social personage since the death of his unlamented spouse.
Most of them belonged to the Legitimist party, the noblesse of the faubourg; those who did not, belonged to no political party at all, indifferent to the cares of mortal States as the gods of Epicurus. Foremost among this Jeunesse doree were Alain's kinsmen, Raoul and Enguerrand de Vandemar. To these Louvier introduced him with a burly parental bonhomie, as if he were the head of the family.
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