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"Delighted to have an opportunity of making your acquaintance," he said. Maxime de Trailles himself gave Eugene an uneasy glance, and suddenly dropped his insolent manner. The mighty name had all the power of a fairy's wand; those closed compartments in the southern brain flew open again; Rastignac's carefully drilled faculties returned.
For some days the Countess had paid more and more attention to a young man whose every step seemed a triumphal progress in the great world; it seemed to her that he might be a formidable power before long. He paid Messieurs de Trailles and d'Ajuda, played at whist for part of the evening, and made good his losses.
Toward the close of the audience given by the minister of Public Works to Monsieur Octave de Camps, who was presented by the Comte de l'Estorade, an usher entered the room, and gave the minister the card of the attorney-general, Monsieur Vinet, and that of Monsieur Maxime de Trailles. "Very good," said Rastignac; "say to those gentlemen that I will receive them in a few moments."
"He has only just come to Paris, dear, and is in search of some one who will give him lessons in good taste." "Mme. la Duchesse," said Eugene, "is it not natural to wish to be initiated into the mysteries which charm us?" "But Mme. de Restaud is herself, I believe, M. de Trailles' pupil," said the Duchess. "Of that I had no idea, madame," answered the law student, "so I rashly came between them.
"M. de Trailles made his bow to Gobseck, took a seat, and listened to us with a courtier-like attitude; its charming humility would have touched your heart to see, but my Gobseck sits in his chair by the fireside without moving a muscle, or changing a feature.
"'I am quite sure of that, Gobseck answered calmly; 'you had no intention of meeting your bills, that was all. "The Countess rose, bowed, and vanished, with a great dread gnawing her, I doubt not. M. de Trailles was bound to follow, but before he went he managed to say: "'If either of you gentlemen should forget himself, I will have his blood, or he will have mine.
On the other hand, the cloud upon his life might at a given moment serve to neutralize his honor; and Rastignac, while rejecting the proposal of de Trailles and Franchessini to put the mystery into the hands of the police, did not himself renounce a means which, dangerous as it seemed to him, he might use if occasion warranted.
Once in possession of the information furnished by the landlady of the Mulet and by the sub-prefect Antonin Goulard, Monsieur de Trailles had soon arranged his plan of electoral operations, and this plan evinces itself so readily that the reader must already have perceived it.
Up to the time of his marriage, his life was one continual war, like Lousteau's, for instance. I was, and am still his solicitor." "And the first letter of his name is Maxime de Trailles," said La Palferine. "For that matter, he has paid every one, and injured no one," continued Desroches.
His transition to the estate of dandy swiftly followed. When he went to the German Minister's dinner, all the young men regarded him with suppressed envy; yet de Marsay, Vandenesse, Ajuda-Pinto, Maxime de Trailles, Rastignac, Beaudenord, Manerville, and the Duc de Maufrigneuse gave place to none in the kingdom of fashion.
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