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Nucingen and du Tillet looked at each other; after that sly glance du Tillet said to Philippe, "My dear count, I shall be delighted to do business with you." De Marsay intercepted the look du Tillet had exchanged with Nucingen, and which meant, "We will have those millions."
If ever man could feel confident that he was absolutely alone, and that there was no remote possibility of being watched by prying eyes, that man was the cashier of the house of Nucingen and Company in the Rue Saint-Lazare. Accordingly the deepest silence prevailed in that iron cave.
But as there are no recognized experts in intrigue, no connoisseurs in love affairs, a banker finds himself in difficulties when he is in love, and much puzzled as to the management of a woman. So Nucingen could think of no better method than that he had hitherto pursued to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him.
So, after all, it will be money deposited at interest." "You are right, mein anchel; you know the vorld," he replied. "You shall be mein adfiser." "Well, you see," said Esther, "how I study my man's interest, his position and honor. Go at once and bring those fifty thousand francs." She wanted to get rid of Monsieur de Nucingen so as to get a stockbroker to sell the bond that very afternoon.
"I have been hard at work for ten years and I have not made as much as that yet." "We'll take counsel of each other," said Bridau; "you shall see how well I understand finance." "How much do you really own?" asked Nucingen. "Three millions, excluding my house and my estate, which I shall not sell; in fact, I cannot, for the property is now entailed and goes with the title."
Shares that had fetched twelve hundred and fifty francs fell to four hundred, though intrinsically they were worth six. Nucingen, knowing their value, bought them up at four. "Meanwhile the little Baroness d'Aldrigger had sold out of the mines that paid no dividends, and Godefroid had reinvested the money belonging to his wife and her mother in Claparon's concern.
"'Yes, she has a mother with a great liking for rose-color. said du Tillet; and with that epigram he cut Nucingen's diplomatic efforts short. "After dinner the Baron de Nucingen informed Wilhelmine Adolphus that she had barely four hundred thousand francs deposited with him.
The friendship of such a woman as the Baronne de Nucingen is of a kind that sets a man abjuring egoism in all its forms.
They babbled over Nucingen; he was discussed and judged; they even slandered him. His luxurious life, his enterprises! When a man has so much on his hands, he overreaches himself, and so forth, and so forth.
Look here, borrow twenty thousand francs for me, and I will set out to make my fortune in America, like my friend d'Aiglemont when Nucingen cleaned him out." "You!" cried Josepha. "Nay, leave morals to work-a-day folks, to raw recruits, to the worrrthy citizens who have nothing to boast of but their virtue. You!
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