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Esther and her elderly lover retired to the bedroom, Louchard finding it necessary to apply his ear to the keyhole. "I lofe you more as my life, Esther; but vy gife to your creditors moneys vich shall be so much better in your pocket? Go into prison. I shall undertake to buy up dose hundert tousant crowns for ein hundert tousant francs, an' so you shall hafe two hundert tousant francs for you "
"Besides, young men are too selfish; they think more of themselves than of us; while you, now, think only of me. I am all your life to you. And I will take nothing more from you. I want to prove to you how disinterested I am." "Vy, I hafe gifen you notink," cried the Baron, enchanted. "I propose to gife you to-morrow tirty tousant francs a year in a Government bond. Dat is mein vedding gift."
"Take notice," said Louchard, before taking the money, "I am only selling a piece of information, pure and simple. I can give you the name and address of the only man who is able to be of use to you but he is a master " "Get out mit you," cried Nucingen. "Dere is not no name dat is vort one tousant crown but dat von Varschild and dat only ven it is sign at the bottom of a bank-bill.
She represented herself as pinched and in debt, and to crown all, she was so undisguisedly hideous that the Baron at last believed her to be all she said she was. "Vell den, I shall pay the hundert tousant, and vere shall I see her?" said he, with the air of a man who has made up his mind to any sacrifice.
"I weel promees in the contract to geeve you one ten tousant tollars deux mille two tousant avery yare for fife yare. Très bien. My daughtare is educate; she stoody fife, seex yare in te convent at Montreal. Zhe play on piano evare so many tune. Bien. You come Monday. We weel zee. Adieu. I mean good-by, Mistare Sonee." "Adoo, musheer," said Dave, taking his hat and leaving.
"But one word from me to-morrow to monsieur, and you, madame, would find yourself in the streets," retorted Europe insolently. "Dat dam' maid!" said the Baron to Georges, who naturally asked his master if all had gone well, "hafe do me out of dirty tousant franc but it vas my own fault, my own great fault " "And so monsieur's dress was all wasted.
"Heyday! were have you come from? who are you? what do you want?" cried the Englishwoman, pulling the bell, which made no sound. "The bells dey are in cotton-vool, but hafe not any fear I shall go 'vay," said he. "Dat is dirty tousant franc I hafe tron in de vater. Are you dat mistress of Mensieur Lucien de Rubempre?"
Jacques Falleix had spoken to him about this house, which was worth sixty thousand francs at most, and he wished to be put in possession of it at once, so as to avail himself of the privileges of the householder. The cashier, honest man, came to inquire whether his master had lost anything by Falleix's bankruptcy. "On de contrar' mein goot Volfgang, I stant to vin ein hundert tousant francs."
Suddenly the owner appeared and, pouncing furiously upon him, asked if he knew what he was doing. "Peeling a most extraordinary onion," replied the philosopher. "Hundert tousant tuyvel!" shouted the Dutchman, "it's an Admiral Van der Eyk!" "Thank you," replied the traveler, immediately writing the name in his notebook. "Pray, are these very common in your country?"
In business dat is vat ve call curiosity." "And that is not everything," Europe went on. "If you should not take madame's fancy and that is on the cards she would be angry, and I am done for! and my place is worth a thousand francs a year." "De capital to make ein tousant franc is twenty tousand franc; and if I shall gif you dat, you shall not lose noting."
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