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"You have that chance to-morrow evening, Monsieur Duplessis," said Enguerrand. "What! at M. Louvier's dinner? Nay, I have no other acquaintance with M. Louvier than that of the Bourse, and the acquaintance is not cordial." "I did not mean at M. Louvier's dinner, but at the Duchesse de Tarascon's ball. You, as one of her special favourites, will doubtless honour her reunion."
Get back your abstract, or a copy of it, and confide it to me. Gandrin ought to help you; he transacts affairs in a large way. 'Belle clientele' among the millionnaires. But his clients expect fabulous profits, and so does he. As for your principal mortgagee, Louvier, you know, of course, who he is." "No, except that M. Hebert told me that he was very rich."
"No, Louvier; I have too well considered the case to alter my decision. It is through you, and you alone, that I shall approach my relations. My vindicator must be a man of whom the vulgar cannot say, 'Oh, he is a relation, a fellow-noble; those aristocrats whitewash each other. It must be an authority with the public at large, a bourgeois, a millionaire, a roi de la Bourse.
"But I will tell you one secret. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity, are gone quite out of fashion; and Mademoiselle has abandoned her great chant of the Marseillaise, and is drawing tears from enlightened audiences by her pathetic delivery of 'O Richard! O mon roi!" "Now about the other friends of whom you ask for news. "Wonders will never cease. Louvier and Duplessis are no longer deadly rivals.
"Pardon me," answered Louvier, meekly, "but I did not return to Paris for months after you had disappeared. My mind was unsettled by the news that awaited me at Aix; I sought to distract it by travel, visited Holland and England; and when I did return to Paris, all that I heard of your story was the darker side of it. I willingly listen to your own account.
"The Prince!" said Rochebriant, rousing himself from revery; "what Prince?" "Do you not recognize him by his wonderful likeness to the first Napoleon, him on horseback talking to Louvier, the great financier." "Is that stout bourgeois in the carriage Louvier, my mortgagee, Louvier?" "Your mortgagee, my dear Marquis? Well, he is rich enough to be a very lenient one upon pay-day." "Hein!
M. Louvier buys an estate near Paris builds a superb villa. Close to his property is a rising forest ground for sale. He goes to the proprietor: says the proprietor to himself, 'The great Louvier wants this, and adds 5000 louis to its market price. Louvier, like myself, can't bear to be cheated egregiously.
"Piccola, piccola! com e cortese! another invitation from M. Louvier for next Saturday, conversazione." This was said in Italian by an elderly lady bursting noisily into the room, elderly, yet with a youthful expression of face, owing perhaps to a pair of very vivacious black eyes.
"I see a thousand phantom forms of LIBERTY but only one living symbol of ORDER that which spoke from a throne to-day." Isaura left her letter uncompleted. On the following Monday she was present at a crowded soiree given by M. Louvier.
'Hillo! says Louvier, 'here is a financier who desires a hotel to vie with mine! He goes on Wednesday to my next-door neighbour. 'Friend, you want to sell your house. I want to buy the price? The proprietor, who does not know him by sight, says: 'It is as good as sold. M. Duplessis and I shall agree. 'Bah!
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