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Updated: May 22, 2025
Was it stupidity, imprudence, love or charity? "'The second bill, bearing the signature "Fanny Malvaut," came to me from a linen-draper on the highway to bankruptcy. Now, no creature who has any credit with a bank comes to me.
""Mlle. Fanny Malvaut?" ""She has gone out; but if you have come about a bill, the money is waiting for you." ""I will look in again," said I. "'As soon as I knew that the porter had the money for me, I wanted to know what the girl was like; I pictured her as pretty.
When you came in I was thinking that Fanny Malvaut would make a nice little wife; I was thinking of the contrast between her pure, lonely life and the life of the Countess she has sunk as low as a bill of exchange already, she will sink to the lowest depths of degradation before she has done! I scrutinized him during the deep silence that followed, but in a moment he spoke again.
"Three months later I was an attorney. Before very long, madame, it was my good fortune to undertake the suit for the recovery of your estates. I won the day, and my name became known. In spite of the exorbitant rate of interest, I paid off Gobseck in less than five years. I married Fanny Malvaut, whom I loved with all my heart.
"Mademoiselle Camille will be wide awake in a moment if I say that her happiness depended not so long ago upon Daddy Gobseck; but as the old gentleman died at the age of ninety, M. de Restaud will soon be in possession of a handsome fortune. This requires some explanation. As for poor Fanny Malvaut, you know her; she is my wife."
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