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If I were to exert all my power, if I were to collect all my means together, they would not be sufficient to pay these enormous sums." Again he turned over the papers, and pointing with his finger to one of them, he continued: "Yes, there it stands. I am a rich man on paper. Leipsic owes me more than a million. If she pays, and De Neufville comes, I am saved.
A cry of horror escaped Gotzkowsky's lips; he staggered, and was obliged to support himself by a chair to keep himself from falling. This was the last, decisive blow, and it had wounded him mortally. "De Neufville has failed!" he muttered low to himself. "Yes, he is bankrupt!" said Ephraim with scarcely suppressed malice.
Inform yourself minutely of everything concerning this extraordinary establishment; go into their houses, get acquainted with individuals, hear some of them preach. The finest preacher I ever heard in my life is le Pere Neufville, who, I believe, preaches still at Paris, and is so much in the best company, that you may easily get personally acquainted with him.
Why should he continue to bear the burdens of a life which had no longer any allurements, and whose most precious jewel, his honor, he had lost? De Neufville had done right, and only a coward would still cling to life after all that was worth living for had disappeared. They should not point scornfully at him as he went along the streets.
"What do you say De Neufville is dead?" cried Gotzkowsky, hurrying after him as he neared the door, and seizing him violently by the arm. "Say it once more De Neufville is dead?" Ephraim enjoyed for a moment, in silence, Gotzkowsky's terrible grief. He then freed himself from his grasp and opened the door.
"He came to his death by his own hand; he did not wish to survive his disgrace. He has done right for when disgrace begins, life ends and shall I live," asked he aloud, as almost angrily he threw his head back, "an existence without honor, an existence of ignominy and misery? I repeat it, De Neufville has done right. Well, then, I dare not do wrong; my friend has shown me the way.
Life is but a combat; whoever is the strongest that is, has the most money is conqueror." "De Neufville has fallen that is a hard blow," muttered Gotzkowsky; and as his wandering eye met Ephraim's, he added with an expression of complete prostration: "Enjoy my suffering; you have succeeded I am hurt unto death!"
Both were so occupied with their own thoughts and feelings, that they took note of nothing else. "Have not letters arrived?" asked he once more. "No letters have arrived," said she, smiling joyously, "but happiness has come." "De Neufville is here, then!" cried Gotzkowsky, anxiously, hurrying toward the door. "What has De Neufville to do with it?" asked Elise, with surprise holding him back.
You have heard of my speculation in the Russian magazines?" "Of the magazines which you, with De Neufville and the bankers Moses and Samuel, bought?" asked Bertram. "Yes, that is it. But Russia would not enter into the bargain unless I made myself responsible for the whole sum." "And you did so?" asked Bertram, trembling. "I did. The purchase-money has been due for four months.
Bertram suppressed with effort a cry of anger, and covered his face with his hands. "He is lost," he muttered to himself, "lost beyond redemption, for he founds his hopes on De Neufville, and he knows nothing of his unfortunate fate." Bertram raised his head again, Gotzkowsky was standing near him, looking brightly and lovingly into his sorrowful, twitching face.
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