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Corentin rested his elbow on the arm of the chair on which he was sitting, and his head on his hand, meditating. "Money! The man has more than we have," said he. "Esther Gobseck served him as a bait to extract nearly two million francs from that well of gold called Nucingen. Gentlemen, get me full legal powers, and I will rid you of the fellow." "And the letters?" asked the Duc de Grandlieu.
Du Tillet has it in the highest degree." "Try to get du Tillet, and if he and Nucingen between them could only catch him in some of their plots, I should at least be revenged. They would bring him to beggary! "Oh! my dear, to have fallen into the hands of a hypocritical Protestant after that poor Falleix, who was so amusing, so good-natured, so full of chaff! How we used to laugh!
But keep a tight rein on Eugenie; she will do any earthly thing for money; she is a dreadful creature!" "An' vat of you?" "I," said Asie, "I make both ends meet." Nucingen, the astute financier, had a bandage over his eyes; he allowed himself to be led like a child.
Philippe, who owed his rise to the Restoration, was misled by his profound contempt for "civilians"; he believed in the triumph of the Ordonnances, and was bent on playing for a rise; du Tillet and Nucingen, who were sure of a revolution, played against him for a fall.
"Monsieur, my uncle and aunt put all their property into the hands of Monsieur de Nucingen, and they were forced to accept as security certain shares in the mines at Wortschin, which as yet pay no dividends; and it is hard at their age to live on hope." "How do they live, then?" "They do me the great pleasure of accepting my salary."
If then, to-morrow, you have not, between eight o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock in the evening, thrown a letter over the wall of your garden into that of the Baron de Nucingen, where it will be waited for during the whole of the day, a man, who is entirely devoted to me, will let down two flasks by a string over your wall at ten o'clock the next morning. Be walking there at that hour.
Restaud comes of a good family, his wife has been received into their circle; she has been presented at court; and her sister, her wealthy sister, Mme. Delphine de Nucingen, the wife of a great capitalist, is consumed with envy, and ready to die of spleen.
"So, that is over; and now where will you take me?" he asked, as soon as the door was closed, and he showed the seven thousand francs to Mme. de Nucingen. Delphine flung her arms about him, but there was no passion in that wild embrace. "You have saved me!" she cried, and tears of joy flowed fast. "I will tell you everything, my friend. For you will be my friend, will you not?
When he had tried on his dress suit, he put on his new morning costume, which completely metamorphosed him. "I am quite equal to M. de Trailles," he said to himself. "In short, I look like a gentleman." "You asked me, sir, if I knew the houses where Mme. de Nucingen goes," Father Goriot's voice spoke from the doorway of Eugene's room. "Yes."
"You do not know how I suffered to-day when Nucingen refused to give me six thousand francs; he spends as much as that every month on his mistress, an opera dancer! I thought of killing myself. The wildest thoughts came into my head. There have been moments in my life when I have envied my servants, and would have changed places with my maid.
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