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"All the more so," Rastignac went on, "because Lucien is a really clever fellow. These gentlemen have had proof of it more than once," and he turned to Blondet, Finot, and Lousteau. "Yes, the boy is cut out of the right stuff to get on," said Lousteau, who was dying of jealousy. "And particularly because he has what we call independent ideas..." "It is you who trained him," said Vernou.
"Yes, the little thing was in love with you, and now that her brother is dead she is as rich as Croesus." "Oh! why did you tell her?" cried Rastignac. "Eugene," Delphine said in his ear, "I have one regret now this evening. Ah! how I will love you! and for ever!" "This is the happiest day I have had since you two were married!" cried Goriot.
"Come early to me on the day of that breakfast affair," Rastignac whispered, "and I will teach you to play. You are a discredit to the royal city of Angouleme; and, to repeat M. de Talleyrand's saying, you are laying up an unhappy old age for yourself." Des Lupeaulx was announced.
"She is in love with you already, your little Baronne de Rastignac!" "She has not a penny," Eugene continued, much mystified. "Ah! now we are coming to it! Just another word or two, and it will all be clear enough. Her father, Taillefer, is an old scoundrel; it is said that he murdered one of his friends at the time of the Revolution.
"If we are, it does not follow that our kingdom ought not to have the chance of becoming as able as ourselves." "Parbleu!" cried Rastignac, in the tone of a man who comes to the climax of a conversation, "I wish I had power to realize a wish " "And that is?" "To see you grappling with that ability which you call meddlesome."
"That is something, certainly," said Franchessini, aloud; but he thought to himself that since the days of the pension Vauquer the minister had taken long strides and that roles had changed between himself and Vautrin. "You can tell him what I say," continued Rastignac, going up the steps of the portico, "but be cautious how you word it." "Don't be uneasy," replied the colonel.
She was drowned in tears, and lay crouching in the depths of an armchair, as if she were tired of life and longed to die. It was piteous to see her. Before venturing to look at Rastignac, she glanced at her husband in evident and abject terror that spoke of complete prostration of body and mind; she seemed crushed by a tyranny both mental and physical.
Delphine and Rastignac had no secrets from each other; and the baroness related to him her scene with the countess. Eugene, who had never supposed that Delphine could be mixed up in the affair, which was only accessory to his eyes, one means among many others, opened her eyes to the truth.
"Ah!" replied Monsieur de l'Estorade, philosophically, "but isn't that how life itself is carried on? great effects from little causes." Rastignac had scarcely departed before Madame de l'Estorade returned with Nais and Monsieur and Madame de Camps. "My dear," said her husband, "you have just missed a charming visitor." "Who was it?" asked the countess, indifferently.
Keller, Rastignac, de Marsay, du Tillet, all their friends had made the Baroness understand that a man like Nucingen could not be allowed to die without any notice being taken of it; his enormous business transactions demanded some care; it was absolutely necessary to know where he stood.
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