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"To-morrow," he went on, "Jacqueline will tell you how to dig up the gold without any risk. It is a ticklish job " Paccard and Prudence jumped out on to the King's highway, as happy as reprieved thieves. "What a good fellow the boss is!" said Paccard. "He would be the king of men if he were not so rough on women." "Oh, yes! He is a sweet creature," said Paccard. "Did you see how he kicked me?
"This, dear children, is Mont Blanc. I do not say that our Schwarzwald is not just as lovely in its way. This mountain was first climbed by Paccard and Balmat. The girls are not listening. Gretchen is entirely absorbed in the fascinating appearance of an Italian who has just passed, and who by unmistakable signs conveyed to her that she is adorable.
Europe, detecting a packet of soft consistency, betraying the contents to be banknotes, under her mistress' pillow, proceeded at once to "lay her out," as she said. "Go and tell monsieur, Asie! Oh, to die before she knew that she had seven millions! Gobseck was poor madame's uncle!" said she. Europe's stratagem was understood by Paccard.
Fil-de-Soie, an egotistical philosopher, who thieved to provide for the future, was a good deal like Paccard, Jacques Collin's satellite, who had fled with Prudence Servien and the seven hundred and fifty thousand francs between them. He had no attachment, he condemned women, and loved no one but Fil-de-Soie. As to le Biffon, he derived his nickname from his connection with la Biffe.
Wiry, nimble, ready for anything at any time, but for a weakness of Dutch courage Paccard would have been perfect, Jacques Collin used to say, so completely was he endowed with the talents indispensable to a man at war with society; but the master had succeeded in persuading his slave to drink only in the evening.
Jacqueline looked at her nephew, and was struck by the alteration in his face, visible through the stern mask under which the strong man generally hid his feelings. "You, child," said he to Prudence Servien, "will receive from my aunt the seven hundred and fifty thousand francs " "Seven hundred and thirty," said Paccard. "Very good, seven hundred and thirty then," said Jacques Collin.
At midnight, Paccard, Esther's tall chasseur, met Carlos on the Pont des Arts, the most favorable spot in all Paris for saying a few words which no one must overhear. All the time they talked the servant kept an eye on one side, while his master looked out on the other.
I took everything from Madame Nourrisson; she had about sixty thousand francs of her own. Oh! we are lying in sheets that have been washed this twelve months past. That boy had all the pals' blunt, our savings, and all old Nourrisson's." "Making ?" "Five hundred and sixty thousand." "We have a hundred and fifty thousand which Paccard and Prudence will pay us.
"The public prosecutor will thank you for it to-morrow," said Massol slyly. Now to the great majority, as to the more choice reader, it will perhaps seem that this Study is not completed by the death of Esther and of Lucien; Jacques Collin and Asie, Europe and Paccard, in spite of their villainous lives, may have been interesting enough to make their fate a matter of curiosity.
The Baron of Nucingen, on recognizing the evidence of poison, and failing to find his seven hundred and fifty thousand francs, imagined that one of two persons whom he greatly disliked either Paccard or Europe was guilty of the crime. In his first impulse of rage he flew to the prefecture of police. This was a stroke of a bell that called up all Corentin's men.
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