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And he extended his cane in that direction, as if he were addressing himself, not to Maxence alone, but to all those who were passing by. "Very well, very well! everybody knows you have a carriage," interrupted M. Saint Pavin. The editor of "The Financial Pilot" was the living contrast of his companion.
He was speaking in a hoarse voice, shaking his clinched fist in the air, doubtless at the Baron de Thaller. "Unfortunately," he resumed, "it was only much later that I discovered all this. At the moment, M. de Thaller dazzled me. His friends, Saint Pavin and the bankers Jottras, proclaimed him the smartest and the most honest man in France.
He talks about the contract for street pavin', and it ken be proved 'twas proved in the 'Herald' that our streets cost less per foot than the streets of any town in this State. He knows nothin'. He don't even know that an able man can make half a million out of a big contract, an' do the work better than an ordinary man could do it who'd lose money by it.
Already the witnesses of the arrest had retired, one by one, to go and scatter the news along the Boulevard, and also to see what could be made out of it; for, at the bourse, news is money. M. de Tregars and Maxence left also. As they passed the door, "Don't you say any thing about what I told you," M. Saint Pavin recommended to them. M. de Tregars made no answer.
"The son of the cashier of the Mutual Credit?" "Exactly; and this gentleman is the Marquis de Tregars." "You should have opened the door when you heard a knocking in the name of the law," grumbled the commissary. But he did not insist. Taking a paper from his pocket, he opened it, and, handing it to M. Saint Pavin, "I have orders to arrest you," he said. "Here is the warrant."
They boasted that they had no privations to endure, and always knew where to find the fresh butter wherewith to dress the large slices of beef which they possessed the art of finding. Mme. Favoral heard them laugh; and M. Saint Pavin, the manager of "The Financial Pilot," exclaimed, "Come, come! we would be fools to complain. It is a general liquidation, without risks and without costs."
"M. Saint Pavin politely invited me to go to well, not here." The commissary wrote rapidly a few lines, put them in an envelope, which he sealed with his private seal, and handed it to his secretary, saying, "That will do. Take this to the prefecture yourself." And, after the secretary had gone out, "Well, M. Maxence," he said, "you have heard?" Of course he had.
"'Dat guy was tryin' to get nex' to me wife, de Circassian Beaut', answers the Stone Breaker. 'He spouts bum poetry about her, an' I won't stand fer it, see? Leave me go an' I'll crack his nut as easy as I would a pavin' stone. Merritt had lots of fight left in him and tried to break loose, but the Circassian's remarks wilted him and I never knew him to use poetry again.
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