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"I allow that I was in the wrong," answered Catenac meekly; and, extending his hands to his two associates with an oily smile, he said: "Let us forget and forgive." Was he to be trusted? Mascarin and the doctor exchanged glances of suspicion. A moment afterward a knock came to the door, and Paul entered, making a timid bow to his two patrons.
"Well," answered Mascarin coldly, "I have been certain of success from the very commencement." "Have you been to Vendome?" asked Catenac. "Never mind, I have been somewhere, and at this very moment could place my hand upon the shoulder of the heir to the dukedom of Champdoce." "Are you in earnest?" "I was never more in earnest in my life.
Rely on me; and now I must be off, for I have breakfast to get ready, but I'll call again to-morrow;" and with a curtsy she left the room. Mascarin struck his hand heavily on the table. "Hortebise has a wonderful nose for sniffing out danger," said he. "This Rose and the young fool who is ruining himself for her must both be suppressed."
If M. de Croisenois disliked prosy tales, he by no means underrated the eloquence of figures. He knew quite enough of Paris to understand that if Mascarin threw his net regularly, he would infallibly catch many fish.
"Zora is a very pretty name," observed Mascarin solemnly. "Yes, sir, just what the maid and I told her. She is a splendid woman, and doesn't she just squander the shiners? Thirty thousand francs have gone since yesterday." "I can hardly credit it." "Not cash, you understand, but tick.
"What can I do for you, sir?" asked he with great politeness. "Can I see Florestan?" "In Count de Mussidan's service, I believe?" "Just so; I have an appointment with him here." "He is downstairs in the band-room," replied the landlord. "I will send for him." "Don't trouble; I will go down," and, without waiting for permission, Mascarin descended some steps that apparently led to a cellar.
Let there be but a single flaw in the axletree, and one day it will snap in twain; and Mascarin wanted to eliminate this flaw. "Pooh!" remarked the doctor, playing with his locket, "we shall succeed. What have we to fear, after all, opposition on Paul's part?" "Paul may resent a little," answered Mascarin disdainfully; "but I have decided that he shall be present at our meeting of to-day.
"Call it eight hundred thousand francs," broke in Mascarin. "Say I drew the same amount as you did. We have spent ours, and Catenac has saved his, and grown rich; hence my distrust. Our interests are no longer identical. He certainly comes here every month, but it is only to claim his share; he consents to take his share of the profits, but shirks the risks.
"I," continued Mascarin, "will insist upon the Count's breaking off his daughter's engagement with M. de Breulh-Faverlay, but shall not say a word about the Marquis de Croisenois, while you will take the opportunity of putting his pretensions before the Countess, and will not say a word of M. de Breulh-Faverlay." "I have learned my lesson, and shall not forget it."
He too had been promised a rich wife, and here was another man who was being provided for in the same manner. "These people," muttered he, "seem to keep a matrimonial agency as well as a servants' registry office!" "All that is left, then," said the Marquis, "is to arrange the shall I call it the commission?" "I was about to come to that," returned Mascarin.
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