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"True," said Desroches, "you conquer in the upper ranks, where, as a general thing, they don't use go-betweens. But, at any rate, you have heard of Madame de Saint-Esteve?" "Of course; her establishment is in the rue Neuve-Saint-Marc, and it was she who got that pot of money out of Nucingen for La Torpille.
"The handsome Dutch woman would have swallowed up the income of the Archbishop of Toledo; she ate two notaries out of house and home " "And kept Maxime de Trailles when he was a court page," said Bixiou. "La Torpille is too dear, as Raphael was, or Careme, or Taglioni, or Lawrence, or Boule, or any artist of genius is too dear," said Blondet.
After spending something like forty thousand francs, every folly had brought Lucien back with increased eagerness to La Torpille; he searched for her persistently; and as he could not find her, she became to him what game is to the sportsman. Could Herrera understand the nature of a poet's love?
"If I have no faith in those prospects, or if they are too much shrouded?" "Do not talk nonsense," said the priest. "It would be far more worthy of you and of me that you should open your heart to me. There is now that between us which ought never to have come between us a secret. This secret has subsisted for sixteen months. You are in love." "And what then?" "A foul hussy called La Torpille "
"Well," cried Vernou, "is Coralie's kept man likely to be so very particular?" "Oh!" replied Bixiou, "those thousand francs prove to me that our friend Lucien lives with La Torpille " "What an irreparable loss to literature, science, art, and politics!" exclaimed Blondet.
"I carried off La Torpille!" "You?" cried Lucien. In a fit of animal rage the poet jumped up, flung the jeweled mouthpiece in the priest's face, and pushed him with such violence as to throw down that strong man. "I," said the Spaniard, getting up and preserving his terrible gravity. His black wig had fallen off. A bald skull, as shining as a death's head, showed the man's real countenance.
"Well," he said after a brief pause, "I would die as the Negroes do without a word. And you, with all your airs will put folks on my traces. What did I require of you? To be La Torpille again for six months for six weeks; and to do it to clutch a million. "Lucien will never forget you. Men do not forget the being of whom they are reminded day after day by the joy of awaking rich every morning.
"You are wasting five francs' worth of copy," said Bixiou, interrupting Lousteau. "La Torpille is something far better than all that; you have all been in love with her more or less, not one of you can say that she ever was his mistress. She can always command you; you will never command her. You may force your way in and ask her to do you a service "
In the days of his splendor Georges d'Estourny, a handsome youth, and above all, a jolly fellow, as generous as a brigand chief, had for a few months "protected" La Torpille. The false Abbe based his calculations on Esther's former intimacy with this famous scoundrel, an incident peculiar to women of her class.
The object was to give the air an uninterrupted flow instead of allowing it to be broken up into eddies behind the head of the pilot, and it also provided a support against the enormous wind-pressure encountered. This true stream-line form of fuselage owed its introduction to the Paulhan-Tatin 'Torpille' monoplane of the Paris Salon of early 1917.
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