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Meanwhile, if you allow me to find purchasers for your timber, and if you will not suffer the Chevalier de Finisterre to regulate your expenses, you need have no fear that the interest due to me will not be regularly paid, even though I shall be compelled, for the first year or two at least, to ask a higher rate of interest than Louvier exacted say a quarter per cent. more; and in suggesting that, you will comprehend that this is now a matter of business between us, and not of friendship."
You are aware, of course, that, though M. Louvier has had notice of our intention to pay off his mortgage, that intention cannot be carried into effect for six months; if the money be not then forthcoming his hold on Rochebriant remains unshaken the sum is large." "Alas! yes."
But in all my adventures, under whatever name, I have earned testimonials of probity, could manifestations of so vulgar a virtue be held of account by the enlightened people of Paris. I come now to a close. The Vicomte de Mauleon is about to re-appear in Paris, and the first to whom he announces that sublime avatar is Paul Louvier.
"Pardon me, Louvier; I did not give you credit for feelings so keen and so genuine, nor did I think myself thus easily affected by matters belonging to a past life so remote from the present. For whom did Louise forsake you?" "It matters not; he is dead." "I regret to hear that; I might have avenged you." "I need no one to avenge my wrong. Let this pass." "Not yet.
I thought it right, I say, to tell Louvier confidentially the history of the unfortunate illegal marriage. It did not damp his ardour. He wooed her to the best of his power, but she evidently took him into great dislike.
"Well, Marquis," said Louvier, "what does the castle say to the town?" "Monsieur Louvier," answered Alain, extending his hand with cordial eagerness, "accept my sincere apologies for the indiscretion of my metaphor. Poverty is proverbially sensitive to jests on it. I owe it to you if I cannot hereafter make that excuse for any words of mine that may displease you.
"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!
"Any friend of yours will be welcome. But I own the articles signed in the name of Pierre Firmin do not prepossess me in favour of their author." "Why so?" asked Louvier; "surely you are not an Imperialist?" "Nay, I do not pretend to be a politician at all, but there is something in the writing of Pierre Firmin that pains and chills me."
"Monsieur le Marquis," said Duplessis, when the salon was cleared of all but himself and the two friends, "Lemercier has confided to me the state of your affairs in connection with M. Louvier, and flatters me by thinking my advice may be of some service; if so, command me." "I shall most gratefully accept your advice," answered Alain, "but I fear my condition defies even your ability and skill."
Certainly if no one could have recognized M. Lebeau in the stately personage who had visited Louvier, still less could one who had heard of the wild feats of the roi des viveurs in his youth reconcile belief in such tales with the quiet modesty of mien which distinguished the cavalier now replying, with bended head and subdued accents, to the courteous welcome of the brilliant hostess.
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