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On opening his eyes, he saw on either side old Sigismond and Madame Georges, whom the cashier had summoned in his distress. As soon as Risler could speak, he said to her in a choking voice: "Is this true, Madame Chorche is this true that he just told me?" She had not the courage to deceive him, so she turned her eyes away. "So," continued the poor fellow, "so the house is ruined, and I "
"Well?" queried old Sigismond, who was impatiently awaiting her return. "They wouldn't believe me, and politely showed me the door." She had tears in her eyes at the thought of her humiliation.
And yet," the good man would add by force of habit, "and yet I haf no gonfidence." "Never fear, Monsieur Sigismond, I am here," the judge would reply. "You're not going away yet, are you, my dear Frantz?" "No, no not yet. I have an important matter to finish up first." "Ah! so much the better." The important matter to which Frantz referred was his marriage to Desiree Delobelle.
He did it at first in rather a vague way. "Monsieur Georges is spending a great deal of money," he said to him one day. Risler exhibited no surprise. "What do you expect me to do, my old Sigismond? It is his right." And the honest fellow meant what he said. In his eyes Fromont jeune was the absolute master of the establishment.
"What will become of us?" he repeated again and again. "Oh! these women " One day Mademoiselle Planus sat by the fire with her knitting, waiting for her brother. The table had been laid for half an hour, and the old lady was beginning to be worried by such unheard-of tardiness, when Sigismond entered with a most distressed face, and without a word, which was contrary to all his habits.
All were deeply moved; some wept aloud; others, seizing the hand of the emperor and bathing it in tears, vowed allegiance to Albert, and declared that while he lived they would recognize no other sovereign. The very next day, November, 1437, Sigismond died. Albert and Elizabeth accompanied his remains to Hungary.
Sidonie had forgotten to tell him of this latest purchase; she used no ceremony with him now. "Pay it, pay it, Pere Planus," he said, with a shade of embarrassment, and added: "Charge it to the account of Fromont jeune. It is a commission intrusted to me by a friend." That evening, as Sigismond was lighting his little lamp, he saw Risler crossing the garden, and tapped on the window to call him.
Sigismond had set his heart upon bequeathing to Albert the crowns of both Hungary and Bohemia, which magnificent accessions to the Austrian domains would elevate that power to be one of the first in Europe. But Barbara, his queen, wished to convey these crowns to the son of the pagan Jaghellon, who had received the crown of Poland as the dowry of his reluctant bride, Hedwige.
Claire descended into Planus' office. To see Risler striding to and fro, with his hands behind his back, as calm as usual, no one would ever have suspected all that had taken place in his life since the night before. As for Sigismond, he was fairly beaming, for he saw nothing in it all beyond the fact that the notes had been paid at maturity and that the honor of the firm was safe.
We have to save the honor of the house of Fromont, which alone is at stake, which alone fills my thoughts at this moment." Sigismond put out his hand. "You are a noble man, Risler. Forgive me for having suspected you." Risler pretended not to hear him. "A hundred thousand francs to pay, you say? How much is there left in the strong-box?"
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