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Updated: June 10, 2025
The bailiff, who had followed the woman, laid a summons in due form before the lawyer, and asked him whether he meant to pay his father's debts. The claim was for ten thousand francs at the suit of an usurer named Samanon, who had probably lent the Baron two or three thousand at most. Victorin desired the bailiff to dismiss his men, and paid. "But is it the last?" he anxiously wondered.
The contrast between the ill-assorted eyes and grinning mouth gave Samanon a passably ferocious air; and the very bristles on the man's chin looked stiff and sharp as pins.
The contrast between the ill-assorted eyes and grinning mouth gave Samanon a passably ferocious air; and the very bristles on the man's chin looked stiff and sharp as pins.
I am going to dine with the Kellers and my mistress to-night," he continued; "and to me it is easier to find thirty sous than two hundred francs, so I keep my wardrobe here. It has brought the charitable usurer a hundred francs in the last six months. "And sou by sou," Lousteau said with a laugh. "I will let you have fifteen hundred francs," said Samanon, looking up.
If you would pay what he owes to that vile Samanon, he would give you back your money, for in a few months he will be getting six thousand francs a year, he says, and we are to go to live in the country a long way off, in the Vosges." At the word Vosges the Baroness sat lost in reverie. It called up the vision of her native village.
Samanon touched the brass button of a bell-pull, and a woman came down from some upper region, a Normande apparently, to judge by her rich, fresh complexion. "Let the gentleman have his clothes," said Samanon, holding out a hand to the newcomer. "It's a pleasure to do business with you, sir; but that youngster whom one of your friends introduced to me took me in most abominably."
"If Samanon won't take your bills," Gabusson had said, "nobody else will look at them." A second-hand bookseller on the ground floor, a second-hand clothes-dealer on the first story, and a seller of indecent prints on the second, Samanon carried on a fourth business he was a money-lender into the bargain.
"If Samanon won't take your bills," Gabusson had said, "nobody else will look at them." A second-hand bookseller on the ground floor, a second-hand clothes-dealer on the first story, and a seller of indecent prints on the second, Samanon carried on a fourth business he was a money-lender into the bargain.
"Oh, if only some one would pay my debts!" said the Baron, with a suspicious look, "for Samanon is after me." "We have not paid up the arrears yet; your son still owes a hundred thousand francs." "Poor boy!" "And your pension will not be free before seven or eight months. If you will wait a minute, I have two thousand francs here." The Baron held out his hand with fearful avidity.
The two scamps joined forces with Barbet, Chaboisseau, Samanon, and usurers of that stamp, and bought up hopelessly bad debts. "Claparon's place of business at that time was a cramped entresol in the Rue Chabannais five rooms at a rent of seven hundred francs at most. Each partner slept in a little closet, so carefully closed from prudence, that my head-clerk could never get inside.
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