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But those fine strokes of business were not to be renewed at present, and Naudet, whose expenditure had increased with his gains, drawn on and swallowed up in the mad craze which was his own work, could now hear his regal mansion crumbling beneath him, and was reduced to defend it against the assault of creditors. 'Won't you take some more mushrooms, Mahoudeau? obligingly interrupted Henriette.
'I have been told, muttered Jory, mildly, 'that he has just signed a very profitable agreement with Naudet. That name, thrown haphazard into the conversation, had the effect of once more soothing Bongrand, who repeated, shrugging his shoulders: 'Ah! Naudet ah! Naudet. And he greatly amused the young fellows by telling them about Naudet, with whom he was well acquainted.
After a lapse of almost eleven years, I again find this identical BEAUVILLIERS still in the full enjoyment of the greatest celebrity. ROBERT and NAUDET in the Palais du Tribunat, and VERY on the Terrace des Feuillant dispute with him the palm in the art of Apicius.
After that Naudet loses no time, but disposes in a similar manner of nine or ten paintings by the same man during the course of the year. Vanity gets mingled with the hope of gain, the prices go up, the pictures get regularly quoted, so that when Naudet returns to see his amateur, the latter, instead of returning the picture, buys another one for eight thousand francs.
The number of librarians who have united great learning to a love of books, is the best practical answer to all sneers about the two being incompatible. Nor, while we count among us such names as Panizzi, Birch, Halkett, Naudet, Laing, Cogswell, Jones, Pertz, and Todd, is the race of learned librarians likely to decay.
Naudet, the Royalist champion, was recalcitrant, and amid furious shouts from the pit, "On your knees, citizen!" at length gave way, embraced Talma with ill-grace, and on the ensuing nights the Revolutionary repertory, The Conquest of Liberty, Rome Saved, and Brutus, held the boards.
"Well, my faith, I don't know. Suppose we say twelve hundred?" "What are you talking about? Twelve hundred francs! You don't understand me, then, my boy; it's worth two thousand. I take it at two thousand. And from this day forward you must work for no one but myself for me, Naudet. Good-bye, good-bye, my dear fellow; don't overwork yourself your fortune is made. I have taken it in hand."
But Bongrand interrupted him in a rough voice: 'No compliments of condolence, my friend, eh? I see clear enough. At this moment somebody nodded to them in a familiar way, and Claude recognised Naudet a Naudet who had grown and expanded, gilded by the success of his colossal strokes of business.
It was a sight to see the famous Naudet amid the rout; he had held out at first, he had invented 'the dodge of the Yankee' the unique picture hidden deep in some gallery, in solitude like an idol the picture of which he would not name the price, being contemptuously certain that he could never find a man rich enough to purchase it, but which he finally sold for two or three hundred thousand francs to some pig-dealer of Chicago, who felt glorious at carrying off the most expensive canvas of the year.
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