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Updated: June 26, 2025
So, on the following morning, about half past six, Madame Rigou, who herself took care of the poultry-yard with some assistance from Jean, knocked timidly at her husband's door. "Monsieur Rigou," she said, "you told me to wake you."
The late monk was occasionally visited by Catherine Tonsard who was very devoted to her brother Nicolas; on one such occasion Rigou advised her to appeal to the general and the countess. "They may be glad to do you this service to cajole you; in that case, it is just so much gained from the enemy," he said. "If the Shopman refuses, then we shall see what we shall see."
But if you act wisely you will find that when Monsieur Rigou gets possession of your pavilion at Les Aigues, you will have very nearly thirty thousand francs in his hands and thirty thousand more which the said Rigou may entrust to you, which will be all the more advantageous to you then because the peasantry will have flung them themselves upon the estate of Les Aigues, divided into small lots like the poverty of the world. That's what Monsieur Gaubertin might say to you.
"Rigou is thinking as much about you as a cook thinks of the gudgeons he is frying in his pan," called out Fourchon. "Take the clapper out of your throat when you are drunk," said Mouche, pulling his grandfather by the blouse, and tumbling him down on a bank under a poplar tree. "If that hound of a mayor heard you say that, he'd never buy any more of your tales."
As Tonsard asked the question, Vaudoyer left the house to see Rigou. Langlume, who had already gone out, turned on the door-step, and answered: "Crowd of do-nothings! are you so rich that you think you are your own masters?" Though said with a laugh, the meaning contained in those words was understood by all present, as horses understand the cut of a whip.
At the period of which we write it amounted to over a hundred thousand francs, although in 1816 he had taken out one hundred and eighty thousand for investment in the Public Funds, from which he derived an income of seventeen thousand francs. Lupin the notary had cognizance of at least one hundred thousand francs which Rigou had lent on small mortgages upon good estates.
Ostensibly, Rigou derived about fourteen thousand francs a year from landed property actually owned by him. But as to his amassed hoard, it was represented by an "x" which no rule of equations could evolve, just as the devil alone knew the secret schemes he plotted with Langlume. This dangerous usurer, who proposed to live a score of years longer, had established fixed rules to work upon.
He is intimate, as you know, with Soudry, the head of the gendarmerie at Soulanges; with Monsieur Rigou, our mayor at Blangy; the patrols are under his influence; therefore you will find it impossible to repress the pilferings which are eating into your estate. During the last two years your woods have been devastated. Consequently the Gravelots are more than likely to win their suit.
"Plissoud," replied Rigou. "Plissoud!" exclaimed Soudry. "Poor fool! Brunet holds him by the halter, and his wife by the gullet; ask Lupin." "What can he do?" said Lupin. "He means to warn Montcornet," replied Rigou, "and get his influence and a place " "It wouldn't bring him more than his wife earns for him at Soulanges," said Madame Soudry.
"Tonsard is ready for mischief," said Soudry, "I know that; and we'll work him up by Vaudoyer and Courtecuisse." "I'll answer for Courtecuisse," said Rigou. "And I hold Vaudoyer in the hollow of my hand." "Be cautious!" said Rigou; "before everything else be cautious." "Now, papa skull-cap, do you mean to tell me that there's any harm in speaking of things as they are?
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