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But M. Saint Pavin officiated for all; and the sole task of keeping up with him caused M. Favoral to become visibly animated. His cheeks were much flushed, when, having passed the champagne all around, he raised his froth-tipped glass, exclaiming: "I drink to the success of the business." "To the success of the business," echoed the others, touching his glass.
"Yes, I see: one of your regular fighting fellows." "Very well. Go then. I shall not retire before your return. Ah, I forgot; find out what they thought to-night on the 'street' about the Mutual Credit affair, and what they said of the arrest of one Saint Pavin, editor of 'The Financial Pilot, and of a banker named Jottras." "Can I take a carriage?" "Do so."
M. Saint Pavin added, however, that he had said it without much thought, and only because he had once seen M. Favoral buying a three thousand francs bracelet, and also because it seemed impossible to him that a man should do away with millions without the aid of a woman." The commissary could not conceal his ill humor. "Of course!" he grumbled. What next?"
But o' Thursday t' Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port, and t' press-gang showed their teeth, and carried off four as good able-bodied seamen as iver I made trousers for; and t' place were all up like a nest o' wasps, when yo've set your foot in t' midst. They were so mad, they were ready for t' fight t' very pavin' stones. 'A wish a'd been theere! A just wish a had!
Come into the private office, my dear sir: come, we'll have some fun now." Many of the people who were in the office had a word to say to M. Saint Pavin, some advice to ask him, an order to transmit, or some news to communicate. They had all stepped forward, and were holding out their hands with a friendly smile. He set them aside with his usual rudeness. "By and by.
"Speak, speak!" said the commissary. "Fear nothing." "Well," he went on, "M. Saint Pavin and M. Jottras were saying that M. Favoral was only a poor dupe, but that they would know how to find the others." "What others?" "Ah! they didn't say." The commissary shrugged his shoulders.
"Or unless," he said, "my father should have received almost nothing for his share of the enormous sums subtracted from the Mutual Credit, in which case he could have given relatively but little to that woman. M. Saint Pavin himself acknowledges that my father has been egregiously taken in." "By whom?" Maxence hesitated for a moment. "Then, according to you, M. de Thaller must be an accomplice."
Then the auctioneer yelled: "How much am I bid for these 250,000 fine pavin' stones?" "Two dollars and fifty cents," says I. "Two dollars and fifty cents!" screamed the auctioneer. "Oh, that's a joke! Give me a real bid." He found the bid was real enough. My rivals stood silent. I got the lot for $2.50 and gave them their share.
He was the master o' that 'ere shop, sir, and the inwentor o' the patent-never-leavin'-off sassage steam-ingin, as 'ud swaller up a pavin' stone if you put it too near, and grind it into sassages as easy as if it was a tender young babby.
"Trust me," said he, "worthy rustic, we have not a lighter or a firmer step in our courtlike revels, and if duly set forth by a silk hose, and trained unto that stately exercise, your leg would make an indifferent good show in a pavin or a galliard.
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