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She vanished like a falling star. That is M. de Rastignac with Mme. de Nucingen," she continued, indicating another box; "she is the wife of a contractor, a banker, a city man, a broker on a large scale; he forced his way into society with his money, and they say that he is not very scrupulous as to his methods of making it.
"And what have you to fear?" said Lucien, apparently much concerned for his counselor. "Some inquisitive souls are on my track I must assume the manners of a genuine priest; it is most annoying. The Devil will cease to protect me if he sees me with a breviary under my arm." At this moment the Baron de Nucingen, who was leaning on his cashier's arm, reached the door of his mansion.
"You are off your head, Monsieur le Baron," said Louchard; "there is a third endorsement." "Yes, dere is a tird endorsement Cerizet! A man of de opposition." "Will you write an order on your cashier, Monsieur le Baron?" said Louchard. "I will send Contenson to him and dismiss my men. It is getting late, and everybody will know that " "Go den, Contenson," said Nucingen.
Like all ingenuous natures, Esther loved to feel the thrills of fear as much as to yield to tears of pathos. "Let us go to see Frederick Lemaitre," said she; "he is an actor I adore." "It is a horrible piece," said Nucingen foreseeing the moment when he must show himself in public. He sent his servant to secure one of the two stage-boxes on the grand tier.
So at one in the morning the Baron de Nucingen, hidden in the garret where Europe slept, was suffering all the anxieties of a man who hopes to triumph. His blood seemed to him to be tingling in his toe-nails, and his head ready to burst like an overheated steam engine. "I had more dan one hundert tousand crowns' vort of enjoyment in my mind," he said to du Tillet when telling him the story.
"I felt sure myself that he loved you," murmured Father Goriot, while Eugene lay back bewildered on the sofa, utterly unable to speak a word or to reason out how and why the magic wand had been waved to bring about this final transformation scene. "But you must see your rooms," said Mme. de Nucingen.
I noticed, too, that Nucingen had sent bills for large amounts to Amsterdam, London, Naples, and Vienna, in order to prove if necessary that large sums had been paid away by the firm. How could we get possession of those bills?" Eugene heard a dull thud on the floor; Father Goriot must have fallen on his knees. "Great heavens! what have I done to you?
Esther looked at the great banker with a start of surprise that was admirably acted. "Ja, mein kind, I am dat Baron von Nucingen." "The Baron de Nucingen must not, cannot remain in such a room as this," Asie went on. "Listen to me; your former maid Eugenie." "Eugenie, from the Rue Taitbout?" cried the Baron.
The portieres, held back by cords, gave a vista through two elegant salons, one white and gold, comparable only to that of the hotel Forbin-Janson, the other in the style of the Renaissance. The dining-room, which had no rival in Paris except that of the Baron de Nucingen, was at the end of a short gallery decorated in the manner of the middle-ages.
Though consumed by melancholy, which she concealed with the determination of a really superior woman, Dinah was charming, witty, and above all, young again in her court mourning. "You might declare," cried La Baudraye to Monsieur de Nucingen with a wave of his hand to his wife, "that the Countess was not yet thirty." "Ah, ha!
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